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ARNOLD.' (Ohio Co. ) I J?o. est. 7/14/1884. Vitu1a.
Arnold •• Disc. 1/23/85; Re-est. 12/24/87. Ancil
Haven •• 7/2/.95. Vitula Arnold; Disc. 71:1/99; Re·
est. 12/5/99. Nathanael J. Thomas ••• D~sc. 8/3~
1914; Re-est. 4/17/1930. Claud Havens ••• (NA);
Named for Wm. Arnold on,whose land the po was
est. (Musker L. - Heavrin. PN. of OHIO CO., ms,'
3/20/1925); 1st called navens for Ancel Havens,
settler & storekeeper, Had a steam-powered
grist mill. 'PO est. by VituIa: (Mrs. David)
Arnold. the daughter of Dr. Du1i;all, MD. James,
Arnold was a local landowner••• (M.L. Evans of
Beaver Dam. "M.L. Evans Reco1iects, About Arnol(
-Havens'~ ~n ,OHIO CO. NEWIi!,. Centeno Ed. 12/26/
1974. Sect. III, Pp.' 9-10);
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ARNOLD (Ohio Co.): (pron. II (Ah)r/n-;;>ld") , Not
much there. DK about Vitula nor how her name
was pronounced. (Jas. Calloway of Bowling Greel
Ky. interview, ll/5/l977); ("(Ah)r/n<~ld") Had 1
store. The Arnolds were big landowners, had
settled that whole area. Vitula was wife or
daughter of storekeeper there but couldnt tell
me which. DK why n.ch. from Havens. Now: ab.andoned store bldg. Locally called Arnold. Had a
sch., 3 churches in vic. (Harry D. Tinsley,
interview, 8/25/1978);
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BAIZETOWN (9hio co.). ("Baz!town") On Ky.
505 betw. Cromwell & Rosine. 1st settlers
were the Baize family and Oliver was storekeeper and named the po-for that family.
John H. Baize was not the prog. It cou[d
have been Matthias. Prog=probably the father
of Chas. Baize. who was ne 1824 and died
1885. DK what the father's name was. Was it
Matthias? J:ohn_was ne 18l~4. Now: chu. and
closed store and homes.Haej. beEiln 3. stores.
Still called Baizetown. Chu=HewZion. Several Bai~es still_ live there •••• (Harry D-.
Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978);
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BAIZETOWN (Ohio Co.): p.o. est. 5/23/1893.
John D. Oliver ••• U/20797. Wade W. Bl3.ize ••• (NA
c.1880. small store est. at crossroads on
John H. Baize.'s farm. PO est. a fewyrs. later
was named for him. (Musker L. Heavrin, P.N •. OF
OHIO CO .• ms, 3/20/1925) I (pron. "Baz/town")
The Baizes were a rather prominent and early
family. Used to be 2-3 stores and a po here.
Now there may be nothing but homes & a chur.
Not prosperous farming section. Still locally
referred to by this name. No Baizes live in
that vic. anymore. (Jas. Calloway, interview,
11/5/1977) I
BAIZETOWN (Ohio Co;') I Silas 'Baize had a po
,in a small ,store; Several other'stores and
shops. Named for ,the family that's believed
to be of German'descent. Ace',. ,to trad., the
family'descended from 'a young boy found in
the area who'se parents were probably killed
by Ihdians, acc.'to ,a'story told qy Ozna
Shultz, County Super. of Schools in,the 'earl
20th cent. He, said that the 'boy was cared fo
by a family of Shultz(es).' Bill and John
'Henry Baize, bros." lived in the commu. c.
turn 'of 'the' century •.•• ("From' Ox Cart to
Atom Bom]j~' by Lola Ellen Embry, OHIO CO.
MESS. 7/22/1966,P. 211-6);
BARNETTS CREEK (Ohio Co., Ky); Namea for the
Rev. Jos. B'arnet1l:. He came to Hardin Co. by
1780 where he co-org. the Severns Val. Bapt.
Chu •. in '81. In 1786/7 he built a·fort 2 mi
above Ft. Hartford which had been built in
1780 by A1ex'r. Barnett •. (McClure's 200 yrs.
of Hardin Co. hist •• 1979. Pp. 138-9);
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from Hartford; Founded by Jos. Barnett who.
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of the Ct. of QUarter Sessions of.--.Hardin Co.
(Otis M_ Mather. "Explorers and :£Jl:.arly
Settlers South of Muldraugh Hill"j REG~. of
the KHS. Vol. 22. Jan. 1924. Pp. 21-39. 11);
Among the earliest settlements in the lower
Green R. val. was made by the bros. Jos. &
Alex'r. Barnett at least by 2/1783. (maybe
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, BEAVER DAM (Ohio Co.): 5 mi.. so. of Hartford.
On the ICRR. Named for creek on which located.
,Named ;6'y early settlers, before 1798" for the
large numbers of beavers and the big dams they
had built. Beaver Dam Creek. In 1798 these
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settlers, including Martin Coleman, Renders,
Maddoxes, etc. built a log Bapt. chur.ch and
called it Beaver Dam for the stream. PO est.
7 and Elisha Coleman, Martin's son, was 1st pm •
. The PO was also calle'd Beaver Dam. The E&P RR
built thru in 1870 and the depot built ori bank
of creek also bore the name B'.D" By late 19th
cent. the town became the chief shipping pt; fl
that whole area: stock, 'timber shipped from
here ., .•• (from an unid.article in an Ohio Co:
news. 1898,,' reproduced in OHIO CO. NEVIS, 7/19/
1973. ~., 211-~1:
BEAVER DAM (Ohio Co.) I (IIBee/ver D( ae )m")
Kohlmann arr.. in or about 1795. There was
nothing at B.D. site as early as 1777.
t~;:rl{/~hgf~SrXC1S ~ntff7J~ef!6l ~/~?/r,?7~11) ;
Martin Coleman's dates=1738-1818. (Ohio Co.
Times Col's. of Agnes Ashby. 1969-1972. compiled by Michael L. Cook. Evansville, Ind:
1973. typescript, KHS Libr •• P. 33);
BEAVER DAM (Ohio Co.): 1st settler, Mr. Kohlman, arr. before the Rev. War. It's believed
that he named settlement which he :!jounded for
the many beavers who. had built dams on the cree
there. He first called it Beaver Dam Settlement. (M. Ladd, WPA, c.lJ./19lJ.l); (pron.
"Bee/ver D(ae)m") Kohlmann came in 1775 rather
tnan 1795. cf Allen Ashby who studied the land
grants of Ohio and neighboring counties, incl.
Nelson. The o;J:'ig. ,Ashby go!;.:J,OOO .acres for .service in Am. Rev. and bought 1000 acres. ~ome
Ashby:s still. live on this land ••• (Jas. C,alloway
of Bowling crreen, Ky., interview, 11/5/1977);
.Calloway thinks the. prog; ,Ashby came to that
vic. in 1793. Walton'S Cre'ek Bapt. Chur. there
was' est. 1812 and dedicated 18I~. (Ibid.)
BEAVER DAM (Ohio CO.)I p.o. est. 4/10/1852,
James S. Coleman ••• (NA); On the ICRR. Named fo:
the many beavers who in early days would dam u:
the branches. (Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO
CO., ms, 3/20/1925); 1st settled by a family
of German immi's. named Kohlmann •• who spotted
the beaver dams on this stream and called it
Beaver Dam Cr. After a time, small settlement
sprang up and was called Beaver Dam. (acc'. to
Kohlmann's gct;, it. granddaughter, Mrs. Sallie
C'oleman Mitchell of Huntington, W.Va. who got
this info. from the diary of her father, Dr.
J.S. Coleman. She wrote in article in HARTFORD
HERALD and reproduced in LOUISVILLE POST, 2/6/
1925) ;
DAM (Ohio CO.)I Town named for the
creek. Martin Kohlmann from G'ermany to America
in 1759. He arr. at Barnetts Fort where his Is
son,. Henry Coleman was born in 1774. Three yrs
after Henry's birth, the family settled on a
small tribe of Muddy Creek which Martin called
Beaver Dam because the numerous beavers built
big dams across the stream. Henry~lived at
this site till death in 1850 •••• (pP. 334-5).
B.D. began as the farm home of Martin Coleman.
The hamlet developed very clo~e toa Baptist~1
est. 1798 on the creek· 2 or :3 yrs. 'after
Martin had settred there" (?) (P. 377). Tradin
center by 1800.-, PO est. i852', Jas. S. Coleman •
• lst store est. by th(3 Cooper Bros., J. Will &
Edward J. in 1868 ••• (P.378) RR completed in
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B~AVER
BED'A (Ohi~ Co.) I Calloway didnt know Ijf the
Buck Horn name nor of its proper sp~11ing;' nOI
of McSherry. (J"as. Calloway of Bowling Green.
Kt., interview, 11/5/1977);' (Pron. "Bee/d~")
aka Bu~k Horn for the buck's horns over the
door to the local blacksmith's shop, ace',. to
Orville O. Tichenor. age c'~85 in an interview
by S'am McDowell, 1977. McDowell referred !be to
Tichenor. (Shanns Acres, Hartford" Ky. 2983752),. The tape is mostly, on Beda" incl'.: its
naming. This i's a Co. O.H. Proj.' tape and is OJ
file in Co. Libr. & in Frankfort'.' N'.ch. not ch,
in site. (Sam McDowell, interview, 8/24/1978);
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BEDA (Ohio CO.)I p.o. est. as Buck Horn (sic),'
Henry McSherry ••• Disc. 12/23/62; Re-est. 12/15,
1865, Geo. B. Stevens ••• n.ch. to Beda, 7/9/74,
Basil M. Bennett ... Disc. eff. 12/I47I907 (mail
to Hartford) (N}); On the road to Owensboro
from Hartford. C!'Bt-ea;!,;!,eel-~1ield!.ep~Village was
called Buckhorn until po was est. and called
Beda. Alleged that the name was composed of
the initials of several leading residents.
(Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO CO., ms, 3/20,
1925); Tinsley implies that the town was called Buck Horn (sic) at the time the po was est •
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in the POR. ("B(uh)k/h(aw)rn") •• . So many
deer in the ~ic. The local blacksmith,
probably the 1st resident, placed a set of
deer horns over-his door and people started
calling it Buckhorn. He was Basil M. Bennet1
•.•. N.ch. from Bucknorn'to Beda. DK the location of the 1st site of the Buckhorn ,po
but when Basil had it it was at ,his house
which was only a few yrds-. from the store.
McShrry had a store there while Basil owned
the blacksmith shop. Stevens and Foster
:probably -also had stores, as did Wm. Hamil t·
on. Basil changed the name of the po when
he re-assumed the postmastership in 1874 ••
Informant could never learn from local
people why it was renamed Beda. Still call·
ed this. Nowl so~e homes and an antique
shop. Store bldg.~! mi. off of US231 which
was built c.1946. When the highway was
built, the store was closed ••• Two churches
in the vic. One, Beulah Chu. is on old 71;
the other is Mt. Hermon Chu •.•• Greater Bedl
is 4-5 mi. long. (Rarry D•. Tinsley, int~
view, 8/2~!1978); Tichenor wouldnt know
about the Beda name origin. (Ibid.);
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BUFORD (Ohio Co.) I ("~ferd") The area was
1st settled c. 1800. DK who were the 1st settlers in the 'immediate vic. Assumes they were
the Bells. Their settlement was on. old Rt. 71
i mi. off the present hiway (US231). Nowl a
string'of old houses. The store is gone. 8mi.
from Hartford. That place is still called
Buford. DK the origin of this name. No family
of this name but several persons in the count;)!
have this as a given name. Barnetts Creek
("B(ah)r!n~ts Kreek") was named for the Barnetts. the 1st settlers in :the, co., in the
1780s •••• The po sites of Buford & Barnetts Cr.
wele probably different. Thus a ch. in site as
we 1 as of name •••• CI+~ D- Ti\'\J' 1""1 r ,'~~_
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llUl"ORD. (Ohio Co.) I
Bell families lived on
Barnetts Creek but Barnetts Creek and Buford
are not the same place. Buford is on the hts.
B.C. is a farming section. Bells were an earlj
family there. The Bell farm contained salt
wells on Barnetts Creek in the early days.
The store at Buford is now closed. DK what's
there now. DK who Buford was named for. B.C.
was named for the man who held the 1st land
grant and the commu. wasprobably named for thE
creek. Never heard of any Buford families in
there. (Jas. Callowa;r of Bowling Green, Ky.,
interview, 11/5/1977);
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BUFORD' (Ohio Coo): p.o. est. as Barnett's
Creek, 5/2)/1839, Wm. Duke •• ~i~c. 6/26/451
Re-est. 7/25/48, Wm. J. Co111er.1 n.ch. to
Buford, 11/21/1849, Ibid •••• Disc. 10/16/61;
Re-est. 10/5/65, Jas. Newton ••• Disc. 10/31/19C
(NA); Before the C.W. this was a small vil1.
called Be1rs Store, on the road from Hart. to
Owensboro. Believed that the name Buford hono'
a Conf\'ld'. general. (Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF
OHIO CO., ms, Y20/1925); (~Y-(}v,.. "13 C<lh)V"I1(O-D
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CENTERTOWN, (Ohio Co.) I (pron. "S(eh)n!ter/toWl
Always called this. Had as many as 1000 pop.at
one time. About! of the big houses in that viI
are now vacant. Growth was result of deep mine
coal prod'n. & rr. DK why so named. Even beforl
the rr came in, in the 1st decade of 20 cent.,
it was a thriving town. Center of a fairly gooe
agri. area about midway betw. Rough & Green
M!s. Used to' be 2-3 MD's, a hotel, etc. Now: 3,
4 gro. stores, bank at same location. (James
Calloway, interview, 11/5/1977); ("S(e."')~ [tJ /
e..y- ( ¥""'-\" ) Cs"'-- 'rv-<:. 0" w ~ 1> ("l- Y hP);,
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CENTERTOWN (Ohio Co.): cf Janice Kaye Smith,
article on hist. of commu. in the OHIO CO. NE~
8/22/1968: called Centerville, c1860. The to~
really consisted of two localities I Boling
Citv and Tucker Town. Qrig. town site had
homes & a blacksmith shop •• (M. David Orrahood,
"Hist. of Coal in Ohio Co., Ky. (1870-1953),
OHIO CO. NEWS, Cent. Ed. 12/26/197L!-, Sec. V,
Pp. 10-11, 1016); Boling City was a coal co.
town nr. Centertown, in the early 1920s. Nothin€} there. today. (J.as. Calloway, interview,
11/5/1977); Tucker Town may have been named
for Harrison Lafayette Tucker who est. Rockpor
Coal Co. in 1909 and had mines at R'port &
C ' tovm. He was a native of Union Co., Tenn ••••
(Orrahood, op. cit);
CENTERTOWN (Ohio Co.); p.o. est. as Centre
Town (sic), 2/1/1866, Charles H. Dillingham •• ,
Disc. 8/18/70; Re-est. 10!6Z187 1 , R.D. Morton
(by now spelled Centertown) •••• (NA); Town on
the L&N RR (Madisonville Div.) in midst of
coal mining area. One time known as Centerville. Named for its being halfway betw. Hartford and Point Plea~ant, the shipping pt. on
the Green River. (Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF
OHIO CO., ms, 3/20/1925); Inc. 2/11/1890 (ACT
1889/90, VoL I, P. 223);
CENTERTOWN .(Ohiq CO.)I (ltS(eh)n(t]ler/town lt )
was called Centervi11e •••• On the rr.. A trd.
c~r. before the r~came in in 1907. Pop.=c.
450 with 3-4 gro. stories, branch bank. Starting to grow. Some subdivisions going up in
the area. Centertown was given as CentrevillE
on the McHenry 1886 map of Ohio Co. (Harry D.
Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978);
CERALVO (Ohio Co.). see highway marker explaining the name./ Not much if' at;ything there
now. 1937 flood swept away, the b1g 2 story
buildings along the river. Had a Meth. missior.
Not much there even then. At one time, tho.,
quite a flourishing place with at least one
big store, church, lodge hall, etc. (James
Calloway of Bowling Green, Ky., interview,
11/5/1977); In Portuguese: Cerro=a small hill,
$especially a-craggy 9ne; alvo=white.
CERALVO (Ohio Co.): Now almost a ghost town.
A prosperous river town and shipping pt. on th
Green R. in mid 19th c~_nt. I n3{1851 laid out by
H.D. Taylor. Stores, hotel, po, tob. warehouse
in 19th cent. Different accts. of name. IIlost
likely from Span. word for deer "because a
large herd of deer once watered and crossed
the river at the ford" there. This acct. will
'appear on highway marker to be erected at
,Centertown (at jct. of Ky 85 & the old Hartfor
Ceralvo Rd. )on 9/6/70. ( ••• ) (Mrs. Mary K.
Maddox of Centertown, Ky. to Mar\tfia Sue Reneer
and in article by Mrs. Reneer "Hfstoric Ceral'2
Will be in Limelight Sunday, Sept. 6" OHIO CO.
NEWS, 8/27/1970, P. 10:1-4)
CERAL'lO (Ohio Co.) I (lIj;/~(~e)l!v(.oh)lI)
In "Old Indian Believed1~t Water Mark of
Green at Qeralvo" OHIQ CO. -m;WS.9/8/1977.
an acc~. of name is given (cf highway marker
" • .. once the hub of activity betw. Rockport
& Centertown •••• (I have a-copy). Nowl 2 home!
& a chu. and a big cern. On the Green R. at
the end of· a. lo_ng--gravel rd •• off Ky. 85 •••
Chu. is abandoned but still standing and usel
for an annual hgmecpming. Town ~ad been
char.ted and laid off. (Harry D~. Tinsley.
interview, 8/25/],978) l
CERALVO (Ohio Co,): Not even a sign to let one
know he's there. Ceralvo Meth. Church, white
frame struct •. Still active. Half doz. -homes on
end of a "well,..rutted gravel road" to the Greer
R. Unmarke9- road. "Back in 1862, Sam' 1. Wal tel
Anderson came down that road to open a gem
store that would later move to Hartford and
then to Ow'ensboro as the S.W. ,Anderson Co. depi
store. Wo businesses. Three mi. from jc~. of KJ
85/1903 where highway marker was placed. ,(Kei tl
Lawrence, "Some Small' Towns all but ux:g:l!l::t::te:NZ
Gone •••.Sometimes 'Forgotten" OWENSBORO MESS.-INQ,
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CERALVO (Ohio ·Co. ) I "The origin of its intrig
ing name was long a mystery or moot question."
Once busy river port, now "quiet rural commu"
••• (P. 197). Fogle preferred derivation from
"Cerro" (mt. in Spanish) and, "Alvo" (white)
which was suggested to the OHIO CO. NEWS by
Mrs. Geo. H. Hurst. a Pres. missionary in
Brazil some years ago. Ace. to a Brazilian
linguistics expert. Other suggestions offered:
"Bera" and "§.lvQ"=white wax or waxy white. DK
who named it or why. "Perhaps •• a pioneer trave,
ing mer~hant •• from the west or south ••••
(Fogle' s 'Papers I A Hist. of Ohio Co.. Ky " by
McDowell A. Fogle, Pp. 197-8) I
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CERAL~O (Ohio CO.)I p.o. est. 2/22/1855.
Aaron W. ,Davtis; Disc. 6/7/55; Re-est. 312/57.
Andrew W. Baker ••• (NA); Small ville & po at a
landing on the Green R. DK why so-named.
(Musker L. Heavrin. P.O.'OF OHIO CO" ms. 3/2C
1925); Once flourishing river town. now slee~
ville Sch. & chur. disc. D,PO, ,drug store & MD
also gone. Probably named for: 2 Spanish words
"cerro" (mt., Rill, or cliff) & II alva" (white)
i. e. white hill. ,DK who named ft. cf' long
article on it by Mrs. Mary K. Madd'ox of, Center
town, KY",("Historical River Community to Be
Cited by Kentucky Society" (unid'ent. newsp.
article ••. xeroxed for me by librariami', Ky. Li
WKU). (see hist. marker
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CERALVO (Ohio Co.) I PO was disc. 1944. ".'.
on how Ceralvo got its name, .there a~e
different version~. One is from Hazel Everly
Hurst. She was born in Ceralvo. She was a
,~issionary in Brazii 47 years. ,She said
'Ceralvo is a Spanish (sic) word. Cera means
wax, alvo mean!? white. A word in Spanish,
cerro, which means mt., alvo, already known,
is' white. Both words··together, leaving out
r arid 0, would be Ceralvo., Another version
that the ,town was named by one of the early
settlers whose wife 'came from a loyelyvil.,
in Scotland ~ high on a :,qIiff overlooking a
river. (sic) A large part of. Ceralvo was
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River.-" (~rs. Mary E. Foster of C:hatta.
T.ennrot in· a letter to me. 1/J/1979);
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CERALVO (Ohio Co;) I Acc:. to highway marker
3 mi.- north, the name was "derived from
Spanish word meaning dee.r. Traditionally
deer watered and crossed riverthere. Town
was laid out by H.D. Taylor, Mar~ 1851.
Ceralvo took its place as thriving river
town." Became an important- shipping point for
both passengers ahd freight serving many
communi ties in this area. Inc'. 2/1870 by an
Ac:tr- of the '-Ky. Leg.". TOdaYI-ionlY several
dpapidated b1~-gs;' at the s te, below- tJ;e
h~ll, on the r~ver; Only 3
ouseholds W~h10 pop. Masonic lodge hall .r.: chu. ~'I;-'I;He
which was formerly the sch'~hse.- Masons ave
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reg'l. mtgs. but the chur. meets t~ere on~y
lx a yr. the -1st Sun'." in Sept. for an annua
homecoming. cf Mrs-. Corley Davis:on, a resident .'••• ("Old Indian Believed G'old at Water
Mark of Green at Ceralvo" THE OHIO CO. NEWS
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CROMWELL (Ohio Co .• ): p.o. est. as' Porter's Lan
5/28/1846. Felix G. King ••• n.ch. to finzk
Pmcheco. 4/9/1850, John J •. Sigler •• n. ch. to
Cromwell. 4/1/52. Wm. C. Rogers ... (NA); Vill.
at a landing on Green R. DK derivation of name
(Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO CO., ms, )/20
1925); (pron. "Kr(ah)m w~l or Kr'(lah)m/w(eh)l
(Jas. Calloway. 11 5 77); Old Cromwell is what
used to be on the river. The community (New
Crom>,zell) is now almost exclusively on the hig
way. These .are c. ~·mi. apart. Stores all
shifted to the highway. Se~eral stores and gas
stations. Used to be a hi.sch. Doesnt believe
there's anything on the river now. Never heard
of Porters Landing or Pincheco. DK why called
Cromwell. (Ibid.);
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CROMWELL (Ohio Co.) I ("Kr(ah)m/w(eh)l") cf
Perrin for Oliver Cromwell Porter. Old Cromwell is (was) down on the· river; New Cromwell is up on the highway. ("P(ih)nch/o/ko")
=2~ syl.
The present Pincheco is c. 2 mi.
down the road to/ Beaver Dam. Called Pin~
checu Hill (sic), the site of the later
Pincheco po. A little factory there where
they make fishing lures. DK where the orig.
P'co was. The Porters were the 1st settlers
of the Cromwell area. Borah's Ferry=l mi.
beyond Cromwell •••• DK the origin of the P'co
name ••• (Harry D. Tinsley, 8/25/78); Pinchico
(sic) po est. 1/12/1904, Jas. W. Q'ox .. Disc.
1/)1/08, eff·. 2/15/08 (mail to Cromwell) (NA
CROMWELL (Ohio CO.)I Pinchico was given on
the 1886 map of Ohio Co. as nw of Cromwell,
on the road between Beaver Dam & Green R. that
bypasses Cromwell and ends at B9rah's Ferry.
So it.' s betw. W. Prong o.f Indian Camp Cpeek
and the Green R. near the head. of W. Pi6ng ....
Now Pinchico Hill is on US2Jl.
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interview, 8/25/1978); Pinchico is given as
nne of Cromwell on the 186J Civil War militarl
map of Ky. & Tenn. at the KHS Libr. Dr. J6);
CROMWELL (Ohio Co.) I "The busiest and largest
of the Ohio Co. towns" on the Green R. 1:iefore
the rr came in. Before 1870, the town was limii
ed to the land adjacent~o the steamboat landin~
By 1940, it was called 'Old Cromwell." The US
highway now goes through the "new town." At its
peak, had stores, warehouse, tob. factories,
fine homes. Peak era of river traffic was c.
1860. RR into the co. by 1871. To Beaver Dam.
Drew trade away from river towns & their residents & businesses moved to the rr towns. By
1860 peak, Cromwell had pop. of 250, 2nd: only t
Hartford's 500 pop. (Fogle's Papers I A Hist. of
Ohio Co., Ky. " by McDowell A. Fogle, P. 197);
CROMWELL (Ohio Co.) I Named for Oliver Cromwell Porter Wl:lO is said to have built the 1st
horne there. He was called Cromwell Porter and
owned a fleet of flatboats and shipped local
farm produce to N.O. He died 1857 and was
bui:,ied in Green Riv.e£ Bap. Chu. Cern. on US2Jl
1 mi. s. o'f town. (Ace::. to Mrs. Sallie James
Rogers, died 11/1920, age 89+) (Mrs. Marie E.
Dale, her granddaughter, of Cromwell, Ky. in
lette~ to Delphine Haley, 10/JO/1974);
CROMWELL (Ohio Co.): Named for Oliver Cromwell Porter, uncle of Capt. Wm.·H. Porter,
vet. of the Mex. War. Wm. was the son of Wm;
Porter. The Porter proj. and 1st to come to
Amer. was Col. John Porter, a native Irishman. Capt. Wm. H. Porter commanded. the Home
Guar~ at the Battle of Borah's Ferry nr.
Cromwell. lO/31/186I. (Fogle's, Papers~ '.8.
Hist. of... Ohio Co •• Ky •• by McDowell A. Fogle
n.d •• P. 319); . Oliver Cromwell Porter built
the 1st· house in Cromwell in 1835. At that·
time it was called Porters Landing. He rep~
r.esented Butler Co; ,.in the Ky. Leg. (Perrin.
2nd ed. Ohio,Co.• 1885. P. 992);
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DEANEFIELD (Ohio Co.): Named for Guy Deane of
Owensboro who est. the coal operation there.
(M. David Orrahood. 1~'Hist. of Co'a1 in Ohio Co.
Ky. (1780-1953)" in C·ent. Ed. of the OHIO CO.
NEWS, 12/26/1974. Pp. 10-11. 11:4); (II~
feeld") Good sized commu. now--wrth stores & a
chu. or 2. A no. of homes on Ky. 54. Mines in
operation .. ;there now. DEane (s) 11 ve in that
vic. And probably named for them. DK Pro~eni­
tor. (Harry D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978),
Inc. as Deane-Field (sic). a city. 5/12/1890
(ACTS, 1889/90. Vol. 3. P. 549);
DEANEFIELD (Ohio Co. ) I p.o. est. as Ae,tnavi111
7/21/1887. John J. Huff ••• n.ch. to Deanefield.
11/23/1910. Wm. Lee Barrett •• Disc. 1/31/1922
(mail to Whitesville) (NA)I Mining town on the
ICRR. Name= a combo.~f the names of Guy Deane
and a Mr. Field who~the coal mine's owners.
(Musker L. Heavrin. P.N. OF OHIO CO" ms, 3/20,
1925) I ~ra Co .~./t'M:Jj (pron. "Deen/feeld")
DK if ch. of name or site. Nl3}1er heard of
Aetnavil1e. DK why named Deanefield. (James
Calloway of Bowling Green, Ky., interview.
11/5/1977) I
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DUNDEE (Ohio Co.) I On the Rough R. and the MH&
RR 12 mi. e. of Hartford. Town 1st called HinE
Mill for 1st inhab~tant, Alfred T. Hines (ne-7 11/5/1816 in~Millitt&Ville, Ga. In 1856 he
" settled at what l~ became Dundee and built
the mill, ran a. ferry, distillery, & store anc
farmed 1'(50 acres. Edward C; & Virgil Renfrow
moved the.re in 1859. Vir~il, a merchant, bougl'
mill on Hines' death •• '.Hl.nes was for many yrs.
the pm.(~ In 1895. the name of town was ch.
from Hines' Mill to Dundee by J.S. Fitzhugh.
Bank & hi. sch •••• ' (Arhc1"e on Dundee in the
OHIO CO. MESSENGER, 3/13/19·36) l ....
DUNDEE (Ohio Co.) I Ac~. to Perrin, 1885
(P. 147), Alfred Thos. Hines, ne 11/511816 il
Milledgeville, Ga., came to Warren Co., Ky.
in 1818 with his parents. In 1839 he moved t(
Morgantown: •• 1852, i'o Woodbury, Ky., and in
1856 he located at Hines Mills, (sic), Ohio C(
He was son of Thos. Hines, n'e Charl'btte Co.,
Va. Alfred Thomas was ,a merchant and owned/
operated a mill. on Rough Creek and a 160 acrE
farm. He was a magistrate, pm, and 1880
census enumerator. (Harry D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978);
/
DUNDEE (Ohio Co.) '.. formerly' called Renfro's
-(sic) Mill. Settled by 2 Va. families. the
Renf,roos and the F i tzhughs ••• (Ernest Woodward.
Sr. "First Adventures of a Great Ky.-- Soldier
and JTurist" OHIO CO. NEWS, 4/7/1966, P. 5B':
1-2); Now: 3 churches, sch., bank, store,
abandoned garage, homes.' (per. obs. _8/78);
Acc. to Hugh E. Duke, Sr. at a talk-to the
Ohio Co. Hist. Soc. 5/6/1978, it was 1st call
ed Hines Mill. The Hines(es) lived in the
present Buck Mitchell house on- Rough River.
He ran a waterpowered mill, a 5 story structure. He labeled' his products "purity" and
"Lily White". RR built thru in 1908-9 '(later
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the Ii. H•.& S·t. L.) ~An important shipping
ctr. then. Had: 4 groceries, 2 gen. stores,
Dank. 2 MDs, 2 drug stores, harness 'shop,
tele. co., etc. Duk~ '.s father ran a gen.
store there, the Duke Mercantile Co. Now:
bank, store, serv; sta., TV-radio re~air
shop • .z churches. (OHIO CO. NEWS,. 5122/l97t
P. 13 :4-6); .~ (\ \)..~. eli I- . of O"'-~ fWv..>,,~
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'(\A<-Dbw~r
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DUNDEE (Ohio Co,.); 1st c'alled Hines' Mill befO!
the po was est. Totally destroyed by fire on a
Mon. night before 10/511892. Old Ohio Co. landmark. Miil gave mime to viI. there. Owned by
Mrs. Alfred Hines; •• (OHIO CO. NEWS. Centeno Ed.
12/26/1974'. Sect. '2 •. P. 1312, reproduced from
±e~a~,-±gI51±g9 the Hartford Herald. ,10/5/1892;
Rebuilt. (Ibid •• 4/18/1894. repro. in NEWS. '
ibid •• P. 15:1); n.ch. to'Dundee when the po
,was est. (Ibid.; 4/27/1898. repro. -,in ibid.,
P. 17. ; 5 ) ; ."
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DUNDEE (Ohio Co.), Hines Mill=Dundee. Alfred
mill site was 90nveyed by deed, to him', by wni •.
R. Lowry on 2/26/1856. acc. to Tinsley's col.
in the Ohio Co. NEWS, 1/30/1975. It's believed that Lowry and W.W. Hines had built
the mill before 4/10/1855 •••• Dundee=12 mi.
from Hartford, on Ky, 69. (tlo,(uh.)il!dee tl ) DK
why n.ch. DK origin of the Dundee name. Now,
chu.; stores, bank~ •• Hines Mill is given as
such, c;m the river, on the McHenry 1886 map 0
Ohio Co. (Harry D: Tinsley, interview, 8/25/
1978) ;
DUNDEE (Ohio Co.) I Dundee Mills, saw and
!Jour mill, est. 6/1896. Since torn down.1..crJ:;..
~ilt and 'run by Virgil Renfrow'& son-in-law
Will Dean. Virgil's son, Claude ran i t later
and· then his sons, Miller' 'and Musker, ran it
until it closed •••• (OHIO . CO. NEWS, 9/29/1966
P. 311~2);
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DUNDEE (Ohio Co .• Ky) lIst called Hines Mill
In 1902 the local Meth. CltUr'r, bldg. was erected. Had a 80 ft. steeple. 'Renamed for the tow
in Scotland where the ;, t':i.fe-s}:ze zinc alloy
goat ima~e weather vane (was) cast at the
cost of :j;400." Renamed when the vane "was
placed on the (top) of this 80 ft. steeple."
Over the years people have "speculated about
the significance"of the goat .••. (From info.
by Mrs ..Hugh D. Duke. at her funeral home in
Hartford. 1980. She had lived for years in
Dundee. (Ellis Ford Hartfo,r,d & Jas. Fuqua .
Hartford. GREEN RIVER GRAVEL. McDowell Publications. 1983. Pp. 37-8)
DUNDEE (Ohio Co.): p.o. est. 1/24/1898,
Andrew R. Renfrow •.•• (NA); Vil~.on Rough R.
1st called Hines Mill. Dundee was name given
to po est .in that viI. This was taken from a
combination of the names which had:,been sent
to the POD." (Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO
CO" ms,_ 3/20/1925); cf Hugh Duke of Dundee '
who knows the town IS hist; (Acc'. to Joe Aaron,
columnist and feature writer for the Ky. edit.
of the Evansv. Courier, c.ll/7/1974); Waren
(sic) Hines, age 37 in'1850 Cen's,us, a farmer.
His sons=Thos., Jas" Wm., Rott, ,and Guinn.
(Ohio Co. Ky •. 18,,0 Census, 1974),;'
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\. ECHOLS (Ohio Co.) : Active p.o. DK Echols' Is'
" l1ame but he came from Ill. and was not a
local person. Coleman DuPont was owner or mgl
of the Central Coal & Iron Co. cbal mine. It
was located in-- l\luhl. Co. His home is still
standing on W. Jrd St. 'in Central City. The
DuPori~s acquired this mine at Echols sometime in the late 19th cent. and operated it
under the name of the McHenry Coal Co. until
it was sold to Ky. Coke Co. in 1920. K!y. COkE
Qo. was a SUbsidiary of Lou. Gas & Electric
Co. ~ou. Gas operated the mine/after changing its name from Ky. Coke Co. to Lou. G.&E.
Co. ,un-t'il it clos ed in 3/1940. (Mabel Bowen
Hockenberry, letter to me, 1/21/1980);
Assumes that Echols sold his mine & land to
DuPont. The Echols p.o. is now on Tunnel
Hill. Most people call it Tunnel Hill now
but the p.o. is still Echols. (Ibid., 1ettel
to me, 276/1980);
'-,.E·CHO£S (Ohio Co.): In 1874·a Mr. Echols sunk
8:'-ishaft to mine No •. 9c oal. The nam.e preceded
the est. of the po. Echols headed the company
that est. the commu. Commu. never had another
name. Tunnel Hill=O.7 mi. e. of Echols. The
ICRR dug a tunnel thru a hill here. It was/is
called T.H. Pond Run=a Bap. Chu. 2 mi. s •. of
T.H. and est. 1820. Pink Hall was a public sch
attended by children of Echols. T.H. and Pumpkin Ridge. It was c. t mi. n. of T.H. DK of a
White School. She was nee & raised iri the No .•
·19 Sch. Dist. (never had a name) c. It mt.
from Echols. She clerked for many yrs. in the
Echols Company store when it was owned by the
Lou. Gas & Elect. Co. Her source of info.
on early Echols was her father, H.B. Bowen
(1861-1946), a lifelong resi. of the commu.
Echols had many company houses for employees and a commu. building; rr sta for daily
stop of 4-6 ICRR pass. trains. (Mrs. Mabel
Bowen Hockenberry, letm~r to me, 12/29/79);
ECHOLS (Ohi'a Co~'): KY.:. Cpke Co. had mines""
,here' c.1923. Th(l ~)Qmpany ·then owned the town
of Echols, incl. gen'. store, .power plant,
shops, b.pple, , gar:age, etCC:.,· 5oi;. homes and
3:..4 farms ,on some: 2000 acres. Pop •.=500 with
moderh conveniences incl..· commu; ctr.,
.
theater" req. 'fac·ility, hosp., saW)lliJ,l. Min~
ing began there in' 1874. The property, was
1st owned/operated by, Golemari du~ont. :Bought
by Ky. Coke Co, 1918_~ • •• (LOU. HERALD, 3/21/.
1923 'on "Views. of Mining 'T0,wnr,' Efficien:tly .'
Equipped Plant, and 'Operations of Ky •. Coke Co.
at :Schols.- Ky. "t; .
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ECHOtS (Ohio Co.) I (Pron. II (Eh) k/dlz") Used t
be called TunneHIHill for the rr tunnel there
(liT uh n ~l H(ih}l") and Pink Hall(1!P(ih)~_
H aw I" for the school which had earlier
been known as White Hall. DK why it was call
ed Echols. DK when the tunnel was built;" But
it was a rr'tunnsl so it was probably built
after 1900, after the Echols name was in use.
The Tunnel Hill, Echols. and Pink Hall names
were' used interchangeably. Officially the
place was called Echols; the others were just
nicknames. The' trains didnt stop at EChols;
they stopped down 'past the tunnBl, down under
the hill; that may have been what was called
Tunnel Hill. Thus T.H. was c. 1 mi. from
EChols. The Pink (or White) Hall Sch. was
at Echols., DK when the school was built.
Locally called Echols now. SchoOl now referred to as either Pink Hall or White Hal]
inretrospect •••• (Sam McDowell; interview.
8/24/1978) ;
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ECHOLS (Ohio Co.): p.o. est. 11/2/1881, Andrew I
Duncan ••• (NA); Small coal mining town on the
ICRR. Echols' name was chosen by POD from list
of submitted names. (Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF
OHIO CO., ms., 3/20/1925); The McHenry-Rockport
mines were her:e. (OHIO CO. NEWS, Centenn. Ed. 'j
Sect. 2, P. 1~15);
/,./-,.. (, {IC)-'V,
(pron. "(Eh)k!olz") nr. Rockport. Doesnt
think any,j:;hing there before 'the coal mines were
est. DK how far the mines were from the town.
DK why so-named.' (J as. Calloway of Bowling Greel
in interview, 11/5/1977);
,
Echols mine opened at Rockport in 1873. By
c1884, the Echols name was in use.
ECHOLS (Ohio Co.. Ky'): Mine first opened in
the vic. in 1874. It was 1st owned and
operated by Coleman du Pont but was bought
by the Ky. Coke Co. in 1918. The mine was
originally a shaft' mine. • .• (" Views of
Mining Town. Efficiently Equipped Plant and
Onerations of 'Ky. Coke Co. at Echols. Ky."
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ECHOLS> (Ohio CO.)I ("(Eh)k!alz") Mining toWl
Active po. Serves t-l doz. families. May havE
bee.n called Scottown or that may have !:leen
further down the road. Pink Hall=the nickname for a school. Actually the sch. was No.
12.. DK why called P.H. The article on Echol~
was from the, HartCNEwS, 4/1J/1978. DK the
origin of_the Echols name. Nowl a no. of
homes, several churches, po, maybe more than
1 store •• -.Echols is not a falllily name. Stric1
ly a farming area until the mines opened.
Nearby=Pond Run Chu., est. -c.- 1820s. The vic.
may have-been called the Pond Run commu., ,
(Harry D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978);
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·'·"ECHOLS (Ohio Co .'): Coal m~m.ng town- or company town. Most of its present residents are
still miners for striPRing or underground
operations. The.Echols Mine was started by
the Central ':I;ron & C'oal,Co. The Lou. Gas &
Electric Co. later operated the mines until
they closed 2/9/1940; The town was wholly
owned by the mining co. At peak had 100 coowned homes for the miners, store, po, opera
house with silent movies •.•.• Mine employed
250-)00 persons~ C. 1/) of pop~ was Black.
Ida Porter Woodburn was a pm. Children went
v to Pink Hall Sch. cf Mrs; Mabel B"owen
HoCkenberry of Echols, who clerked in the co
•
store from 1925-1940 and he r sister Mrs"
Anna Howen Toole of Central City; aJ,so Mr.
Vernie Curtis who lives nr. Echols.' (,," ... )
("Echols" in THE OHIO CO. NEWS, 4/13/1978,
"Pp. 19-20);
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1.3 rr mi. from Fordsville. In 1/4/1910, the
L&N completed a connection f:r;'om Madisonville
to the Fordsville Branch of the LH&St.L: RR
at this point. ("Hist.· of Ra ilroads in Breck.
Co." by David W. Hayes, in the BRECK. CO.
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EQUALITY (Ohio Co.): p.o. est. 6/11/1909.
Harry D. Brown ••• (NA); On the L&N RR. PO
named for nearby church. (Musker L. Heavrin.
P.~I. OF OHIO CO"
ms. 3/20/1925); (pron.
IIEe/kw ah)l (ih)/tee") was the name ·of the po.
Kronos Fron. "Kroh/nohs") was the name of the
rr sta. They were right. across' the road from
each other. There was an Equality Meth. Chur.
there many years ago but it since burned ••••
Kronos is also pron. ("Krohhp.(uh)s") (Jas.
Calloway of Bowling Green. Ky ••. interview.
11/5/1977) ; .
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The Reeds were 'among the earliest families.
Chu. is just below the store. Kronos is the
name of the r~!";,·(UKr(oh)/n(oh)z") I'eople cal
ed it by both names. RR still comes thru
there but may have no depot. Road thru there
goes to the Green R. and stops. Just across
from S. Carrollton. No longer a ferry. S,trip
ping in the surrounding area. Used to be a
lot of farm families in the vic. but there
are few there now. Now: store & some homes
on the road. DK origin of the two names.
(Harry D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978) ~±i
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FORDSVILLE (Ohio Co.): (pron. "Fawrdz/v(ih)l
DK j..f-n.ch. or ch. of site. "•• • There used to
be a movement (sic) at Rockport to form another county with Fordsville as the co. seat;
cut off' part of Ohio, Grayson, Breckinridge."
DK what they were going to call it. "That
movement ••• died slowly •• even (as late as)
when I was in hi. sch ••• But it was all to
boost the town of Fordsville •••• Ohio Co. has:
consolidated (high) sch. at Fordsville." Ostel
sible reason for est. of new county: because
of all the trouble people in that section of
the co. had in getting to Hartford. There
still arent many towns betw,' H. and F. Only
Dundee:( ••. ) The highway was built on the old
rr line, incl. its bridges •••• DK which Ford
it was named for. Nor who the 1st settlers
were or when. Huff is an old family there.
No longer a Haynesville commu. in that area.
(Jas. Calloway of Bowling Green, Ky., interview, 11/5/1977);
FORDSVILLE (Ohio Co.·): p.o. est. as Haynesville, 3/11/1837, John H:?ynes; n •. ch. to Fords·
ville, 1/20/1846, Haden Wells ••• 10/18/1892,
Bessie Ford ••• (NA); Named for the oWner of
the land on which town was built before the
Civil War. (Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO
CO., rns, 3/20/192:5); Hs-ynesville is a small
,ill. en the reaa frem Hartfera te H&nesville
Oft hma' eRee evmed by a man named Haynes. PO
nB:llled for hilll.(l¥!uslEer L.Heavrhl, PiN. OF
OHIO GO., IDS, 3/20/1925 ); Founded by Elisha
Ford'. (DAVIES.S,' HANCOCK. OHIO & McLEAN COUNT.
IES, KY. EARLY SETTLE!VIENT, CUSTOMS, SUPERSTITIONS" SKETCHES, ETC. (In Ky. Rm, O· boro
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FORDSVILLE (Ohio Co.), The Fordsville Cabine'
Co. is a large ~actory sw of town on Ky. 69
tol Hartford. (pers. obs. 8/1978);, Kimball
Furn. Co. has a,>f'actory there too (c.1974-);, i
cf John'Blackburn of Fordsville, Ky. a C.W. '
buff' and best local historian. Haynes Sta.-,
a pioneer sta., 2 mi. from Fordsville),' Nr. or
at the site of Haynes Cem; Also ,cf T.W. WesteI
field of Owensboro, Ky. who has done research
on the Fo'rd family. (684--1824-) (Sam McDowell,
interview, 8/24-/197.8);
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"·!':ORDSVILLE
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it was named for Elisha Ford whose
son, Jim, became ,',an important Hartford banker./Ac~. to Perrin (1885): Jas. W. Ford, ne
1/25/1842 at Fordsville ",Ohio Co. was the SOl
of Elisha N. and Nancy Hardwick Ford. Elisha
was a native of Shelby Co., Ky. whose parent~
came from-NC and were among the pioneer settlers of Shelby Co. Elisha was a tobaccanis'
and farmer and was a state ,legislator for 3
terms. Died 1851. (P. 140 of Ohio Co. sect.)
Ac~. to Perrin (P.139), Wm. Ford's bro.,
Elisha Ford was a Eordsville resident and
the town was named for him. Elisha's son,
He·thi~
James, was a successful Hartford businessman. Elisha and Wm.'s father, John, settled nr. Fordsville site in 1833 and died
in 1870 (ch) John was ne S.C. 1818. With
his father, Elisha Ford, he settled in
Shelby Co., Ky. Elisha I was a Rev. War
vet. (Harry D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/
1978) ;
FORDSVILLE (Ohio Co.) 1 Maybe named f'or Elisha
Ford who arr. f'rom Shelby Co., Ky. in 1832
attracted by timber & game. He was a South
Carolinian. Brought wif'e, Sally O'Neal Ford &
son, John, 12, among others. Was he 1st settler
••• (cf Mrs. Annie Fuqua of Fordsville) (OHIO CO
NEWS, 12/26/1974, Sect. 1, P. 714); Elisha was
ne Shelby Co., Ky. son of' John & Nancy (Garth)
Ford. John was ne S.C:. (Fogle's Papers~ A Hist.
of Ohio Co., Ky., by McDowell A. Fogle);
FORDSVILLE (Ohio Co.)= Named for Elisha Fore
the 1st storekeeper who ,died 1851. He was in
Ky. Hse. of Rep. for 2 terms. PO est. as
Fordsville. It ree'd. that name in 1847. 1st
pm-Chas. Cobb. 1st voting pree. in that area
was Kelly Pree. whieh was named for and by
Baptist missionary Rev. Kelly whQ died in
1834. He and his family are buried in Friendship Cern. ("Fordsville Named for Elisha Fore
OHIO CO. MESS. 3/18/1955, P. 3:4);
FORDSVIL1E (Ohio Co.): Believed to have been
1st settled by the Huff' family in 1833. Named
for Elisha Ford, Ford,y;ille I s 1st merchant ~
Chas. Cobb was 1st pm. Russell. Davison ~/was
pm, c1965. Hotel, bank •••• RR center when IGRR
came thru in 1889. Several yrs. 1ater the L&N
came thru. ("Fordsville Has Witnesse,a.1 Steady
Growth Since Establishment in 1833" Unidenti.
newsp. article'/~l~- in Ky. Libr. vert. file
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HARTFORD (Ohio Co., KY)I " ••• in 1782-1783.
Smeather's Station later called Fort Hartford.
was erected on a high bank overlooking Rough
River. The early stockade was erected under
the direction of Wm. Smeathers (popularly
known as Bill Smothers or Bill Smithers). He
later erected the first known log cabin at the
Yellow Banks (now O'boro) about 1798-1799."
(Hugh Potter's Daviess Co. Hist •• 1974. P. 51)
HARTFORD (Ohio CO:)I Hartford Sta. was settled
befor.e l790.(Collins). DK how named but the
name was"probably derived from the ford on.
(Rough Creek)where deer and other wild animals
were in the habit of crossing in great numbers~
(Harrison D. Taylor, OHIO CO., KY. IN THE OLDE~
DAYS, Louisville, 1926 p. 9). Inc. 1808. (Ibid
(pron."H(ah)rt/fd-rd") (Jas. Calloway of Bowling
Green, Ky. intervi~w, 11/5/1977). po est. 4/1/
1801, Wesley Pigman •.•• (NA).
HARTFORD ':(,Ohio Co.) I Earliest date of settlement as Barnetts Sta.=1782. B.S. was 3 mi.
from site of Hartford. Hartford as a hamlet
was founded at least 26 yrs. before it was
inc. (Pp. 25-6.) Ft. Hartford was "on the
bluff on the so. side of Rough R. overlooking
the orig. 'Hart' or 'hart' ford. was on land
that belonged to ~elgRg8e t~ the orig. patentee, Gabriel Madison •••• The land on which Hartford is situated was donated by the •• pioneer
Gabriel Madison on 11/3/1799 (in the name of
Hartford) •••• )' (Eogle' s Papers I A Hist. of ,
Ohio Co., KY'lbY McDowell A. Fogle, Pp. 16ff,
( ~ .... !" )
HARTFORD (Ohio Co.). Likely a settlement at thif
site by 1782."the first fortified place in the
lower Green R. Valley. Land donated by Gabriel
Madison. part of 4000 acre Va. grant in 1782."
Named for the river ford I~crossed by animals.
(Highway marker on US2)1. at Rough R. Bridge. n.
of Hartford. Ky. acc. to GUIDE •. No. 119.5. P. 2.5S
Zb;PO est. as Hartford C.H. 4/1/1801. Wesley
Pigman ••• (NA)~ On the banks of Rough R. At
this site early sett'lers forded the ri ver~ ford
was on land owned by a Mr. Hart. (Musker L.
Heavrin. PN of OHIO CO •• ms. )/20/192.5") ~
HARTFORD (Ohio Co., Ky): est. on part of 4001
acre tract that Gabriel Madison of Jess. Co.
had rec'd. from Va. and surveyed in 1781-2.
First settlement was made on the bluff above
the buffalo ford on Rough Creek in 1782. (Ac,
to McDowell A, Fogle, PAPERS, 1970, Pp. 17,
22-3) Called Fort Hartford •. Had a stockade.
Inc. as a town in 1806. (Ibid" Pp. 25-6)
(Ellis Ford Hartford & Jas. Fuqua Hartford,
GREEN RIVER GRAVEL, MCDowell Publications,
19 83, P. 67)
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HARTFORD (Ohi· CO.)I Name may have had
several sourc s. Probably not named for the
family of Hart~l that once lived there. More
likely etther for the deer or harts who .
crossed or forded the river at this point or
for a Mr. Hart who owned the ferny there.
(citing Dorothy Gentry) (Martin K. Pedigo,
"Soreheads Spur Hartford Progress" LCJ, 7/19/
1965) I
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the storekee~er. Before it was named Heflin
the qommu. was called Abb:iieville (sic). The pc
here ',was c. 1 mi. from the present ,site of
Heflin. The Heflin, po was on land owned by
the Woodward family. Store closed c.1940.
Still called Heflin. Nowl a few homes and a
WOW lodge. Willis was the 1st Heflin in there.
He came from Centertown and opened up ,his
,store and the commu. was named for him. He
married a local girl and settled there. The
other Heflins in the county remained at Cente]
town. No Heflins left in the li,. vic. Only a
few left in the cOUnty:- ("(Ae)b/ee/v:(ih)l")
was named for Abbie (Abby-?) Rowan in.whose
home on a hill the po was est. A'ville was
across' the cree'k from Heflin, on top of the
hill. (Harry D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/
1978), Abbyville po (sic) was est. 12/28/
1887, Franklin Newton; Disc. 1!/24/1888 (no
papers sent) (NA);
HEFLIN (Ohi~ Ca.): p.o.. est. 8/25/1892. ,Willis
M. Heflin ••• Disc. eff. 8/31/1909 (mail to. Hartfard) (NA); Smal~vill. an the raad fram Hartfard to. Livermare. W.M. Heflin est. p.a •. in his
stare. (Musker L. Heavrin. P.N. OF OHIO' CO .•
ms, 3/20/1925.);' (pran. "H(eh)fllori") Never.
much there but a stare which .may naDlanger
be in aperatian. Naw: Waadman af the' World
. hall. (Jas. Callaway. interview. il/5/l977);
same pran. PO & stare .on Ky. 136 bey and· No. Cree}
Still knawn as Heflin. Even tho.' stare &.pa is
gane,it's not last.its·identity. (Harry D. Tinsley, interview,.B/25/l978);
HERBERT (Ohio Co.), p.o. est. 3/9/1894, Richar
H. Medcalf (sic) " •• Disc, efr. 9/30/1901; Re-es
7/20/1902, Homer J. Milligan; Disc. j f f . 10/31
1905 (mail to Reynolds Sta. )dNA); l I'~
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'("Her/bert ) Had a sch. and was a
II !"{--17) voting prec. &: there was a store &
po. Nothing there now. DK'origin of the name.
(Harry D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978);
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HINES MILL and DUNDEE (Ohio Co.): (pron.
"n-{'uh)n!dee") There was a mill at Dundee on
the Rough R. Sulphur Springs is at the foot 0:
a good sized hill but 2 mi. from Dundee. The
Hines Mill was on the river, perhaps at the x:
s~te of-Uundee. At Dundee, the hill runs down
t6 the creek, at SS it doesnt. There may have
been more than one mill there but he doesnt
know of but one. cf Mr. Duke who runs a funer·
al home in Dundee. The Renfrows owned the mil.
SS was an older commu. than Dundee but Dundee
grew larger and swallowed up SS & vic. ~ i§)
Used to have a hi. sch. before consolidation.
DK how Dundee got its name. Still active viI
with severar-stores. (James Calloway, interview, 11/5/1977.):
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HORSE BRANCH .( Ohio Co.): (pron. ItHawrs
Briinch
There's a high hill betw. Rosine &
H.B. and the rr made a tunnel thru it. No
longer there. H.B. was built up when the
branch line of the rr was built thru to O'bor(
After this, trade shifted from Rosine to H.B.
Naming of H.B.=there is a stream there.DK if
called H.B. or Caney Creek. Doesnt think therE
was a stage coach run thru there because the
terrain was not conducive. Now: stores &homes. Used to be a hi.sch. (Jas. Calloway of
Bowling Green, Ky., interview, 11/5/1977);
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Wm. M. Miller ••• (NA); Town on ICRR and on sma 1:
creek called Horse Branch from which town and 1
po were named. (Musker L. Heayrin, P.N. OF
OHIO CO., ms, 3/20/1925); Two accts. of origin
of namel A horse fell. during a spring flood
and got stuck in the branch mud. People would
run to neighbors excitedly crying "horse in
the branch, horse in the branch". A more historically accurate acct. ,is that it was named fOl
the fact that town'was site of a relay sta. '
whEl're stages would stop for fresh hors'es.
Branch par~ of the name designates' being on a
branch line of a rr. .The creek "splits the
settlement." (Loreca J. Arnold·, "Hbw Horse
Branyh Was Named" OHIO CO. nmSSENGER, 10/20/
1967) ;
.
HORSE BRANCH (Ohio Co.), ("H(aw)rs Branch")
A big branch there. Used to take their horses
there and wash them. Some say the horses got
mired down in it at one time, killed them.
Old H.B. is on the stream, down under the
hill from where the road is now. Sch. & store
now on the road. (Harry D. Tinsley, interview
8/25/1978) ;
HORSE BRANCH (Ohio Co.): Today merely a count~
hamlet. Est. by r.r. Brief~y inc.
Most
likely explanation of name: A stage line oetw.
Owensboro & Morgantown changed horses at a
branch at this site. Another acc:t: a horse m:i!rE
there and drovmed. Wei know that stage line ran
through there before the rr came. Depot still
in use on the ICG tracks. Make lIIiller (sic) &
Job Arnold sold ~and to 'the rr'co. Consolo h."
built 1920 ••• At one time 3 hotels •. T.own "dwindled" when trains began to decrease their stops'
in 1956. Today: A masonic halr,.2 churches, po,
gro., depot, ele. sch •. , several homes •• '. (Nina
Shroader, "Horse Branch--Stage C:oach and Railroad Played Initial Parts in its ~egfnning"
OHIO
CO.
NEWS, cent. ed.; 12/26/1974, Sect. 3"
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bunt thru in 1876. "From the time, 1876,
'when the rr, was built thru there!,; it was a
busy town, the jct. of the ma~n line frqm
Lou. to N.O. 'and a branch from'H.B. to 0'
boro. Prior'to the c9ming of the rr" the "
country was 'served by stage, coach which pasE
ed thru what is now H.B. ,arid as the name
implies'there was a branch or 'creek 'running
near, by (sic) through a deeply sh1(cl,ed val'.
with a deep hole that smalJ1,'boys used :f;lor ,
swimming. As this was halfway betw~ O'boro &
Bowl. .Green, the stage coach stopped to
change horses and refresh themselves at thiE
sylvan:spot on'their journey. So when the
first po was est. a~ Hi.B •. ·.it see!Jled very
fitting that it should be named Horse·
Branch." (Pearl R. Perguson, Hartford, Ky.
in a letter·. to me; 2/271979); . . . . .
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KRONOS (Ohio Co.): RR.sta. on the L&N RR
(Madisonville Div.) est. c.1912. DK why sonamed. PO there is called Equality. (Musker
L. Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO CO" ms, 3/20/1925);
Settled at least by [the early 1800s since
Calloway's gt. grandparents were raised in'
that area. Apparently named· for the Equality
Meth. Church .there •. Buil t in the c .1870s. DK
why church was named that or·why .the rr was
called Kronos,. (Jas. Calloway, interview, ll/.~
1977); May still be a store there' and some
homes. Commu. locally caJ,led Equality. Seldom
call Kronos now. The original Equality Church
.. burned ~rs. ago. Churcn was not close to the
store. (Ibid.)
McHENRY (Ohio Co.): p.o. est. as Render Coal
Mines. 3/28/1872. A.B. B"aird; n.ch. to McHenry,
6/16/1874, Andrew Duncan ••• (NA); A mining town
on the ICRR. Named for Henry D. McHenry who coowned the land on which the mines were located
with Josh Render. (Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF
OHIO. CO" ms, 3/20/1925 ).; In the vic. of the
major coal producer in Ohio Co. (P.IOI1)Render
Mine est. after 1870 by the Central Coal & Iron
Co. of Central City, run by T. Coleman duPont ••
He also owned the Echols & McHenry·Mines ••• ln
1873, the Duncans est. the latter 2 mines •••.(10
The town of McHenry was on land oWned by.the C.
& I. Co. though most residents owned their own
homes~ Pop.=c.400 at peak. Had chur., lodge,
sch ••• Chas. W. Taylor, Super. of Echols & McH.
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McHENRY (Ohio Co.): The Render Mine was
opened at McH. in 1871; T~e Render Mine was
at Hamilton (sic) and was. operated by the
Central Coal & I~on Co., T.C. duPont, Super.
c1884;
McHENBY (Ohio Co.): Hamelton--Act to incor.
this town was approved 2/23/1874. Wm. Hamelton
was appointed police judge and Wm. Hamelton,
Jr. was a trustee •••• (ACTS l8~3/4, Pp. 500-1)
Nothing said therein of its location ••••
McHENRY (Ohio Co •• KY): The McHenry Mines
were located 1 mi. s. of McHenry (c. 192])
McHENRY' (Ohio Co'.): James Arbucke Isgro'.
store is now the focal pt'. of the 'c'ommuni ty.
Bud Allen runs a bldg. sUPl?ly business in a'
'former coal co. store'•••..•• (Garry Abrams.
"Residents Quiet.ly Mull Official Fate of
McHenry" OWENSBORO MES_S_INQUIRER,. 11/27/1975.
P. lD); Inc. as Hamelton (sic) 2/2)/1874 (ACT
1873. P. 500). Probably named for Vim. Hameltc
1st police judge. or for the, Hamel ton family.
(Clift. KY. VIL. P. 20);·Inc. as McHenry 2/26
1880 (ACTS. 1879, Vol. 1, P. 247);
McHenry-Render (Ohio Co.), Render Cern. in
McHenry. L.M. Render's brief hist. of the
Render family •••• (OHIO CO. NEWS. 10/14/71.
P. 7:1-3).
.
McHENRY (Ohio Co.), Ace. to the Hartford
Republican, 9/22/1911, the Williams Coal Co.
was located.at McHenry. Also there were, sch.
bank, stores, and factories, commissary for t:
mining camp. On the ICRR. At that time. McH.
had a pop. of c. 700; The Wil~iams Coal Co.
was one of the largest in Ky. The two also
had a po, rail pass. & freight depot, etc. anI
a cigar factory. The Render Mines were 2 mi'e
w; of Beaver Dam on the ICRR and run by the
Central Coal ,& Iron Co. of Louisv •.••• (F'rom thE
KY. G'LEANER, of Heaver Dam. 1/5/1899, repro.
in Ibid., P •. 911-6); The McH'. Coal Co. ran
mines at'· MoH. and at Echols. Henry D. McHenry
est. the co. After his death, he was succeedl
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McHEN:Ri (Ohio Co.): (pron. "M(-;;:~;/H-(eh)~;;~~
L-Called!Hamilton until the org. of the McHenry
Coal-Co. in 1873 by Col. Henry D. McHenry-. DK
who Hamilton was ••• Several almost contiguous
hamlets along that road: McHenry, Render,
Williams. There's a rr'spur off the main line
that runs thru McH. That's dividing line. A
ridge separates McH. and Render. McH. is not
concentrated; a very loosely settled town. DK
what the boundaries were. Had a hi. sch. there
at one time. A company store, a co-MD. But no'
a company town per se though the co. all but
controlled it. Now a lumber co. owns ~he big
co. store. The Co. did rent homes out to thei
miners. Mines were located along the rr spur
I
and not nr. the town itse1f •••• Nowl not an
attractive town. Still referred to as McH.
T.he old co. store is now being used only for
s.torage. Hasnt been used as a store for yrs •
•••• (Jas. Calloway of Bowling Green, Ky.,
interview, 11/5/1977);
"McHENRY. (Ohio Co. ):., (UM(ae)k!h(eh)n!ree")
DK why ,called Hamilton. Haffiiltons lived in
the vic. listed as Hamilton, a viII. in the
1850 Census (check). Thinks they spelled it
Hambleton. DK if this was right or a Census
taker's error. Nowl a string of houses.
There are a no. of mining commu's. in the
area, all joining (incl. Render, Williams,
Simmons, each a po., and Broadway, just the
name of a mine). Most. of the dee'p mines there
are closed, abandoned,. growed up. Some of thel
are being stripped now •.Still a. po at McH.
with a gro. store down the rd. from it 3/4 mi,
There may be another little gro. next to the
po. The old company store is now a hardware
store. Once a thriving town. Still a no.
of homes strung out along the road ••• Acc.
to the McHenry 1886 map of Ohio, Hamilton
(sic) was given on the rrc'betw. Beaver
Dam &.McHenry, just n. of the rr. Thus
Hamilton and McHenry were not at the same
site. Hamilton was given as such in the
1850 census. (Harry D. Tinsley, interview
8/25/1978);
Wm. G.'Duncan. pm and superintendent of the
McHenry Mines (Ohio Co.). son of Andrew Duncar
ne Glasgow •. ~cot. who a~r. America 1855 and
settled first in Pottsville. Pa. Shortly
thereafter he came to Airdrie to work for Ale]
Then he started a mine at Paradise. Then to
Aberdeen. Butler Co. In 1873 he,opened the IE
mine at McHenry and was superintendent of ',i t
until his death in 1877. Wm. G. Duncan was one
of his 8cli:i'ldren. Wm; G. was ne in Hollytowr
Scot. 1851. Andrew Wallace Duncan was son of
Wm. G •. and was ne 7/27/1880, ••• (Perrin. KY: A
HIST. OF THE STATE. bi,og. sketches,' Ohio Co ••
Q~~ ed.2. 1885 •. P •. 948);
,
McHENRY (Ohio CO.)I Named for Rep. McHenry
who wafl "financially interested in Ohio Co.
coal mining." & for his "services to the coal
industry.and the county. II. His "inining interest:
(were) centered (at this place.)" (F.ogle's
Papers I A Hist. of Ohio Co., Ky. ". by McDowell
A. Fogle. P. 37), '1.\J.(\l...ri"'-t._a::<><vts>, C---)
At peak (c,1917-24)-' the town waf! c. I mi. 1011
with pop. of c. 3000. Five coal mines in vic.
"Each co. had its own town name ••• " All got
mail from one po Render" s po .•• ( ••• ) (Boots
Faught (who grew up there), "McHenry As I Remember During. Boyhood" in Cent. Ed. ·of OHIO CC
NEWS, 12/26/1974, sect. V, P. 12:l@4),
McHENRY (Ohio Co.): 1st called Hamilton until
the org. of the McHenry Coal Co._ in 1873 by
Henry D. McHenry, Congressman from 4th Dist.
of Ky., 1872. Town grew. Inc. 1874. Hote~s,
opera house, stores, cigiir mfg. Co., iron
foundry, schools, churches, etc. Employed more
than any other Ohio Co. mine at that time •. 2
co. c~mmisaries. Decline began in the 1930s.
Sch. 1931-55. Town now has fewer than 500.pop.
and J -small gro. &;' ~ \m!rchiri~') shop. -Tov£" est •. c.
coal mines;when these declined, workers were
laid off and townspeople left. Briefly Williams
Taylor Mines, & McHenry were consolidated into
the 'Beaver DamaCo,,", Co. but ceased- operation c.
1937. (Glendon Minton, "A Salute to Coal Minin@
in Ohio Co.-Past & Present" OHIO CO. NEWS,
,
McHENRY (Ohio CO.)I c. 7 und~rground mines
furnished employment for local miners during
the 1920s. The last of the deap mines closed
in 1938. Peak years in the- 1920s when the
town had C'. 600 pop. and 6 chu., saloon, 2
-movie theaters. opera house; bank, iron
foundry, restaurants, po, rollerskating rink,
hotel, 'etc. The coal companies "dominated thE
town's commerce ••• " These companies owned thE
hotel, several stores, theater, utilities,
most' of homes. Now 1 only about a doz. 6:f
the old co. houses are left; the old COi
store is now a hardware-lumber supply store.
On US62 and the rCG RR. Stripping in the areE
····"Memories of Old McHenry" by Helen Winte!
nit" OWF.N!'l. MR_C::C:::':'T1\IOTlT01<'D I, I~~ 1_", . . : . - "
MAGAN (Ohio Co.): ~.o. est. 9/8/1880, Hiram R.
Kirk •.• Disc .,,5/31/1910 (mail to Fordsville)
(NA); Small viI. on the road' from Hartford to
Hawesville at the intersection with the OwenE1,:'"
boro-Morgantown Rd. PO est. in store started
by a Mr. Megan. (Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF
OHIO CO" ms, 3/20/1925); (pron. "Ma/gh(ae)n"
Not familiar with this place. (~as.' Calloway,
interview, 11/5/1977); (Pron.- "Mo/gh(ae)n")
Only name he's ever heard it, called. A family
(Sam McDowell, interview, 8/24/1978);
MAGAN (Ohio Co.). ("MGI/gh(ae)~E:n")Now,
stpre, Homes, chu. On a rural rd. between
Dundee & Ralph, n. of Rough R. Lot of peopl
by that name in the area. Family name. Trade
ctr. for farmers. (Harry D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978);
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MATANZAS (ohio Co.) I p •. o.est. 3/9/1900. Fritz'
J. Jenny ••• Disc. 11/30/1912 (mail. to Centertown) .(NA)i small vil. on the road from Hartf'd
to Point Pleasant. Named for seaport in Cuba
where US soldiers were stationed during the .
Spanish-Am. War. (Musker L. Heavrin, P.~.• OF
OHIO tl0., ms, 3/20/19 2 .5); (pron.- "M( ae ) t/( ae) n
/z-as"). PO est •. about the time 'of the SPAM War
and the state of Matanzas hi Cuba made'the head
lineE>:. Local. people adopted the name. This. was I
a shift from· Pt. Pleasant which was on the ' I
Green R. next to II1cLean Co. When they moved of~
I the rivers inland, that office became obsole.te I
" and Matanzas ,took over •. Now on a rural rte. oUl
of Cente;;r'town •••• (Jas·. Calloway, 11/5/1977);
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MATANZAS (Ohio Co.): Across the rd. from the
Matanzas PO was the West Point Bapt. Church.
Up the road was the Two Point Public Schools.
(check •••• ) (~as. Calloway of Bowling Green, K~
interview, 11/5/1977); ("M,,/t(ae)n/zOls") Had
store there. Bldg, closed but standing. DK the
origin of the' name. West Pt. Chu •••• Had been a
good farming area. Nbw underground mines. Most
of the land there now owned by coal co. Never
had another name and still called that. (Harry
D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978);
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MUDDY CREEK (Ohio Co., Ky): It's said that
J.ames Harrod 6e-RalileEl-,i~ .. -bateF named it
Muddy Run and it later became Muddy Creek.
In 1781 he surveyed 150,000 acres on Caney
Creek for Anthony Walton. (Acc-. to 'the late
Mrs. Elizabeth Lake of Hartford, 0., interviewed by Ellis Hartford in 1959. (Ellis
Ford Hartfond & Jas. Fuqua Hartford, GREEN
RIVER GRAVEL; McDowell Publications, 198], P
61); Ac~. to a deposition by Harrod in an ol(
land suit, he C:;i.me up Green R.. in 1782, up
the s. side of Rough Creek, crossed a large
stream which he called Muddv Run •••• (Harrisol
D. Tay-lor, OHIO CO., KY. IN THE OLDEN DAYS,
1926, P. 8)
NARROWS ~Ohio Co.}:
p.o. in ~the} Robinson's
Groc. Mrs. Ira Mae (sic) Robinson, officer in
charge 12/6/1975+ Serves 17 area families who
pick up their mail from the po and more who are
served by route service from the po. This po
origipated the 1st rura1m§i1 r~)Ute in the co •
••• • "~'Na:rrows P.O. Has New Off~cer, Home" OHIO
CO. TIlYlES, 1/8/1976, P. 5:4-6(~\lj' (pron.
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"N(ae)r/ohz") (James Calloway-of Bowling Green,
Ky., interview, 11/5/1977); (pron. "N(ae)r/'<l z"
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a trading post, for Salomon Phillips, large
landowner. N.ch. about the time the rr came
in, for a narrow spot in Rough River pro the
tracks •• (Eliz. Renfrow, pm, in letter to
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J NINETEEN (Ohio Co., !(y) I Was this a commu?
If so, it was named for the Number Nineteen
School District, c. It mi. from Echols. This
public sch. was c. t mi. n. of Tunnel Hill
'and over! mi. ne of Echols. T.H~ = O.{ mi.
e. of Echols. (Mabel Bowen Hockenberry of
Echols, Ky., lett'er to me, 12/29/19(9); Pink
Hall was a nickname for No. 19 Sch. (Harry D.
Tinsley, 8/25/19(8); identified as a commu.
on the Paradise 7! min. top. map, 1963, 1 mi.
ese of Echols. (I need the precise location
of the soh. which is not symboled on any of
my maps) . The name of a school nr. Echols
which se~ed the commu. still called Nineteen. Had a store there whose bldg. is still
standing. (Tinsley, 8/25/(8)
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NO CREEK \ (Ohio CO.)I p.o. est. 2/9/1848 A A
Rowan; Disc. ,5/23/1849; Re-est. 1/17/1901, 'J;hr
P. Foster •• D1Sc. eff. 12/14/1907 (mail to Hart.
ford) (NA); Probably named for stream called
No Creek (c. 8 mi. long, heads c. l~ mi. nne of
Beda and flows generally southward, then westward to Rough R. c. l~ mi. se of Heflin. "So
named by surveyors because of its dry bed at th
time of the survey" Not an abbrev. for "North".
(BGN, Case Brief, 3/9/1961); "The stream got th
name 'No Creek' from surveyors who were making
survey of the area. When they came upon the dry
bed of the stream, they stated 'this is no
creek.:.ln later years some people began: to cal
it Big No Creek but to old~imers it has always
been known as 'NoCreek' (sic). Some people
mistook the NO as an abbreviation of North
and thus called it North Creek." (Albert
Trethow, 11/3/1960, "Report on Controversial
Names" for BGN);
The comm. of No Creek (2
words) is so. of and parallel to the creek
for c. It mi. and is c. 3 mi. nw of Hartford.
(Case brief, BGN, 3/9/61); Commu. named for
stream and always spelled as 2' words" not 'onE
(Acc,. to F.P. Bell, a resi., and pm of Hartford, c1960, to Trethow in his Rept. on. Can.
Names, 11/3160) ;o..ff-i~ I:>-~c.,. ~ Ge.e.
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/NO CREEK (Ohio Co.), ("N(oh) Kreek") Just a
,narrow strip of land along the Eivermore Rd.
adjacent to Beda ••• Nowl abandoned store
bldg. No Creek Chu.(Meth.) PO had been in th,
old store •••• Never was North Creek. No Creek
(the stream) is mentioned in the 1st deed
that was recorded in Ohio Co., 1798. So that
name is older than the county. Probably name,
by the 1st surveyors •••• (cf book) Two stream:
--Li ttle No Creek and Big 'No Creek. The old
creek was straightened" so' it I s now almost a
new creek •••• (Harry D. Tinsley, interview,
8/25/1978) ;
/NO CREEK (Ohio Co.): _ Good farming area in the
No Creek bottoms and along Ky. 136. One of thE
oldest settled sections of the co. 1st settle!
=the Barnetts, Bennetts, and Stev,enses.(P.16)
The 1st settler on the creek was John Bennett,
1798, Irish-born, Md. resident, who fought in
Rev. War •••• (P.17) The p,'o. in 1901+ was in
pm John P. Foster's store •• (Harry D. Tinsley,
-HIST. OF NO CREEK, OHIO CO., KY., c1953);
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"One acct. claims that a stranger was journeyin
through the country, and, for his directions, h
was told to travel until he came to a certafn
creek. When he came upon'the dry creek-bed, he
is said to have remarked, 'Why, that is'no
creekl '" (2) "'A numbe,r of the old Barnett
surveyors were camped near a,-stream. One of the
was loaded with whiskey, and he almost stumbled
down the bank. When he was- warned to' be 'u'arefu1
or he would fall into the creek, he rep1g(ied,
-That's no creek.·'''('f'he source of No. Ywas th
late L.Ri Barnett. Both accts. came from Harry
D. Tinsley, HIST. OF NO ,CREEK, OHIO CO., KY.,
c1953, P. 15);
"
OLATON (Ohio Cq.): Ola was the daughter.of
Joht:l H. Wilson. Thinks :tha·t Briggs Mill was
a few miles awa~ from what became Olaton.
Acc:, to f1:imily trad., the l1iir.§lt name submitted for the po· rpay have been Viola-•. (Acc'. to
letter from Mrs.- Elva Payton Royal of Lou.,
to me, 1/7/1979. She was born in Olaton,
1907, and raised there); (H/o
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OLATON (Ohio Co.): Joel Payton arr. with
family from Grayson Co. in 1880. He est.
the po here. The 1st name he submitted'to
the POD was already il1 use. In consultation with other',local'people, he decided
to take ,the 'name of his,niece, Ola Wilson
and add the last 3 letters of his surname,
Payton and came up with, Olaton. (Acc::to
his granddaughter, E.lva'Payton Royal of
Louisville, Ky. in a l~tter to me, 12/26/
1978. She said this info •. has been passed
thr~ her fam~ly);
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OLAT0N.:'(Ohio Co.): ("(Oh)l/i1t~") 1st called
(Henjamin) Briggs' Mill for the man who owned
the mill. He was ne e.1812 (ace:. to the 1850
Census) •• ,.Erasmus Sullinger was the storekeeper there •. e.1850. Also a Jos. Wilson. MD.
It was Briggs Mill e.1850. B.M. is the site of
Olaton. Then when Joel Payton ope~ed his po it
was up on t'op of the hill. in hi~ home. jus.t a
few hundred yards from the mill. "Mr. Peyton
(sic) had a daughter named 01a. they say. and
he wanted to call it 01a. But there was another 'one in the state so he took her first
name and the last syllable of the family name.
Still Peytons (Pavtons) ·in· ..the .. county. Thinks
the qommu. was called Briggs Mill until the
est._ of the Olaton po. DK what happened to
Ola. Now: store-po (at one time they had
as many as J stor.es) and -a chu. and a
clustey of homes; rr- went thru it . .T.rade
ctr. for area farmers~ •• (Harry D • .Tinsley,
interview, 8/25/1978); Ac~. to PQR, it was
lSt called Sheaffer's Mill, est. 1/16/1842,
, Anthony Scheaffer. -( sic); 10/24/44, B'enj. R.
Brigg~; n.c~. to Briggs Mill, 2/19/51, ibid
.Disc. 4/29/56; Re-est. 6/14/56, Hopkins
Bright(?) ••• Disc. 6/4/1866 (NA);
OLATON
es the
Creek.
was an
(Ohio Co.): Sta. on·ICRR where it crossHartford-Hardinsburg Rd. And on Caney
Formerly called Briggs'Mill. The mill
old water mill there for many years.
(A~~Fae~e~~eople ~rom allover Ohio & Grayson
'co's. brought the1r wheat & corn here to be
ground. After the rr:was est., a po was est.
there by the same name. DK the derivation of
the name.. (Musker L. Heavrin,. P •. N. OF OHIO CO.
ms, )/20/1925); .p'o est. as Olaton, 7/18/188),
Joel Payton ••• (NA); (pron. "Oh/laitOln") DK
about Briggs Mill or how .Qlaton got ,its name.
Prominent Bapt. church there •. (Jas. Calloway,
interview, 11/5/1977)
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PRENTISS (Ohici Co.), There was a coal mine
at Prentiss, on Slaty Creek of the Green R.
(AgRe8-gaPFa~8eR) The mine was operated by the
Highview Mining Co., off Rt. 269, s. of Beaver
Dam. Coal shi~ped by barge from Cromwell on
the Green R. (Ace. to ~g:ll!RsxHarraiEllI~ 1I'i. l?avid
Orrahood, "Hist. of Coal in Ohio Co., Ky.
(1870-1953), Cent. Ed. of the OHIO CO. NEWS,
12/26/1974, Pp. 10-11, 11:3-4);
PRENTISS (Ohio Co.). ("Pr(ie)nltJhs") DK oj
a Gasburg there. No Prentiss families ever
in the count~. May have been someone's
given name. lRKZHN~PO closed in the c1950s.
Prentis is the usual local spelling. By thif
spelling it's given on the McHenry 1886 map
of Ohio Co. (Harry D. Tinsley, interview.
8/25/1978) ;
PRENTISS (Ohio Co.):. p.o. est. 3/10/1884-, Wm., C
Taylor ••• (NA); PO est. in a small vil. which had been known ~or years as Gasburg. On the
Hartford & Rochester Rd. Named Gasburg for the,
storytelling carried on by local farmers in thE
store there,;' people would come from miles
around to swap tales. The 'PTentiss name was derived from that of a"noted publisher." (Musker
L. Heavrin, P.N. OF OH:rO CO., ms, 3/2.9'/1925);
(pron. "Pr{ eh)n/t.s or Pr{ eh)n/t( in) s") DK
. about Gasburg. In
,agri. area o:ff the road.
Now: church, store, homes. (Jas. 'Calloway,
interview, 11/5/1977) '; ,
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RALPH (Ohio CO.)I p.o. est. 4~A899, Lea A.
Ralph ••• Disc. 601571910 (mail ~~Hartford) (N!
Small vilL ,store on Hartford-Whitesville Rd.
at intersection with Owensboro-Morgantown Rd.
On Panther CreeR. PO est. on land owned by
H.W. Ralph and named for him. (Musker L.
Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO CO.,' ms, 3/20/1925);
C('~, "11- (n) If· '') l~ 0- :"""'-.00 I ~.
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(Pron. "R(ae)lf"
CJc...r,. c..J....L,v'G-j, IIf· !7 7 -)Named for a.loca]
:i';amily, many of whom are still there. (Sam
McDowell,' interview, 8/24/1978);
RALPH (Ohio Co.). C"R(ae )If'') Trad. ctr.
Nowlstore. cf Perrin for family. The Ralphs
lived in that vic. DK if store preceded the
po. (Harry D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/78);
John L. Ralph, son of 'John L •. Ralph-, Sr. whc
in turn, was son of ThQs. Ralpr. Thomas fron
Engl. to Va. John Sr. to Henry Co., Ky.\(:tn
1827 he arr •. in Ohio no. and settled in what
becam'e'the Ralph settlement. There he died
in 1857. John L., Jr. was ne 10/8/1824 in
Henry Co. H'e was a farmer ••• (Perrin, 2nd ec
Ohio Co. 1885, P. 993);
RALPH (Ohio Co .• Ky): A pioneer settlement
named for an early family. (Ellis Ford
Hartford & James Fuqua Hartford. GREEN RIVER
GRAVEL. McDowell Publications. 1983. Pp. 96-
97)
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RENDER' (Ohio Co';') I Acc~. to a his.t. of the
Render family by L.M. Render of Louisv;, the
area (around Mcflenry-Render) was 1st settled
by Lewis Render & his children in the late
1780s" They came from NC. One of the sons,
George, liv:ed', in what's now the center of
McHenry. His bro., Joshua, lived at the site
'of the present Render Cem. They were Bapt.
ministers. A genealogy of the children of th
B brothers, sons of Lewis Render is given •••
(OHIO CO. ~. 10/14/1971, P. 7.1-]);
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RENDER (Ohio Co.), p.o. est. 4/28/1894, Wm. E.
Reed ••• Disc. 1/31/1917 (mail to McHenry) (NA);
A mining yi1. nr. McHenry on the ICRR. Mine
was on land owned by Josh Render and was opened sometime in the 1880s. ViI. and po both
named for Render. (Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF
OHIO CO" 'ms, 3/20/1925); The Render Mine was
the 1st commercial mine in the co. est. by B.
DUPon-fl one of the promoters of the rr be-two
Louisv. & Pad. The mine was c. l! mi. se of
Beaver Dam. Underground shaft mine., Commu. e sit,
around the mine. Not extant. (Glendon Minton,
"A Salute to Coal Mining in Ohio Co.--Past &
Present" OHIO CO. NEWS, cent. ed., 12/2fJ/l974,
Se:p;,t. 3 , \'~:I'r-171 ~'IY;'~.3)
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RENDER (Ohio Co.) I (pron. "R(eh)n!der or
R(ie)n!der") Render and McHenry are separated
by the rr tracks. Started as separate communities and grew together •. When US62 was built
thru there, they started buildin$ on the hiway.
(~as. Calloway, interview, 11/5177); (~X~HX)
Early family in Butler and Ohio Co's ••• Now:
many homes scattered along the road. (Ibid.);
(Pron. "R(eh)nd/er")· cf nTr. Lynn Hunter, of
McHenry, Ky. 274-4034 re- the Render family_ anc
Perrin re- Josh Render;' Also cf Carlos Embry,
Jr. (Sam McDowell, interview, 8/24/1978);
mo,;NQER (Ohio Co.) I ("R(eh)n!der") Joins
'. "McHenry on the east. Named for the 1st settlers of the vic. c.f Perrin... (Harry D.
Tinsley, interyiew, 8/25/1978); Joshua L.
Render, a farmer and merchant on whose land
"an extensive deposit of coal was discovered.
He was born in McHenry, Ky. 11/26/1821 and "
was still alive by 1885. Son of pioneer Ohio
Co. settler, Robert Render, Jr. (1775-1862).
Joshua did not have a bro. named George. Robi
had come from Culpeper Co., Va •••• (Perrin,
KY. A HIST. OF THE STATE, 2nd ed. 1885, P.
994); Geo. W. Renqer, no near kin to above,
twas He Ohio Go. 3116/18'1l anVwas son of~
'"Thos. Render, grands on of Gep. and gt. granl
'son of "Robert Render· who hadcBme to Ohio CI
as a pio"neer. Geo. was ne near Rockport;
Ohio Co. 1/28/1824-. "He is the prinQipal
owner of the 'land on which the McHenrY.Goal
mine is,located.'' (Perrin, KY: A HIST.' OF,
THE STATE, 2nded. 1885.".P. 994-);
,"
RENFlROW (Ohio CO.)I p.o. est. 5/1)/1886, John
T. Renfrow ••• (NA); small viI. in ne section of
the co. At intersection of Rosine-Morgantown R~
and Cromwell-Uan$l&;ville Rd. ' On land O\med by
John Thomas Renfrow and po was named" for him.
(MuskerL.Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO CO" ms, ~/20!
1925); (prqn.- "R(eh)n!froh") The tElrminal 'w"
is correct. But cant@Wirantee that it's alviaYf
been spelled that way. (~as. Calloway of Bowling Green, Ky.,
interview,
11/5/1977);
c
RENFROW (Ohio Co.). with a term. "w" ("R(eh)
/fr{oh)") _Named for the numerous Renfrows ill
the vic. And they,~ire still there. Now. Renfrow Chu. of X. At a fork in the
Nearest
stor.e is at jet.
Ky. 505 & the road to
Renfrow. Farming area. Rough ground betw.
there and Rosine tho' fairly level in the
immediate vie.- of R!'!nfrow •••• S_tripp'ing in the
area. Only a ehu. there now. (Harry D.
Tinsley; interview, 8/25/1978);
of
rue
REYNOLDS STATION Ohio Co I PO was moved to
its present location 9 1 1945 from the ICRR
c. 2 mi. e of present site. R.Sta. and Deanefield are now considered the same community
and both names are in use. R.Sta., as a rr
station, waS never called just Reynolds but
only Reynolds' Sta. She thinks Deanefield was
named for both Guy Deane of Owensboro, local
coal mine ovmer and,a Mr. Field. (actually she
confirmed what I had suggested) She said: "I
used to hear my Dad talked (sic) about'them
both but, of course, I as a child wasnt too
interested in it then, but in later years I
have wondered more about it. Deanfield the
right spelling then was a coal mining town
.with a hotel, jail, co. store. (sic) The
jail burned up and burned to (sic) men Jim
Divens (?) and a Mr. Hide (?). Dont recall
first name. " There was a Frank, Millard,
Fo~ter, A.J. and five girls Ella, Rosie,
Clara, Artie. Rosie married my mother's
brother, David Jett, and all are dead.
Millard has a daughter •• She is still living
at 77 but doesnt seem to know any more than
I remember about the family. Some of the
older members of the Reynolds family are
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buried in the Haynesville Cern, about 4 miles
from here." . (Mrs. Ge orgia F. Wade J Reynolds
Station, Ky., letter to me, 8/25/1981)
REYNOLDS STATION (Ohio Co.): (pron. "R(eh)n!
.ldz") Betwe. Fordsville & Whitesville. Used
to be on the rr. There may still be something
there. Always heard it called Reynolds Station
DK what local people call it now. (James
Calloway of Bowling Green, Ky., interview,
11/5/1977); ("R(eh)n!-oldz Stii/sh"n") so-ca11ee
Still a po. 1st called Reynolds Sta. DK whethel
local peopre call it Reynolds or Reynolds Sta.
(Harry D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978);
REYNOLDS (Ohio Co.): A sta. on the ICRR betw.
Fordsville & Deanefield where the road l:ietw. -Hartford and Hawesville crosses the rr. On land
owned by J.S. Reynolds and named for him. PO
est. there called Reynolds Stati1n. (Musker L.
Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO CO., ms, ) 20/1925); po
est. as Re,;{olds Station, 4~2:2/l890, Fraj;is m.,
Reynolds ••• NA); (pron. "R eh)nhldz Sta shJn" ,
A rr sta. on the old Horse Branch Line to Owensboro. DK what they calI_ it n~w •. Bel'ct;w. Whitesv.,
& Fordsville. Not much of an$th~ng there now.
Just a rural nghrbd. There may have -been familiE
of Reynolds living there but dk. Probably start·
ed by the rr
a station. (Jas. Calloway,
interview, 11 5/1977);
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ROCKPORT (Ohio Co;)·: (Pron. "R(ah)k!p(aw)rt"
Since there was/is a Rock family in Ohio Co ••
this place could as much have been named for
them as for the rock formation in the vic.
Never heard it called anything but Rockport.
Nowl coal loading operation that's strangIlng
the town. Coal from allover the county is
loaded on barges there. Still a good sized
town with a school. (Sam McDowell, interview,
8/24/1978); Inc. 2/24/1870 (ACTS, 1869/70, Vo
1, P. 409);
ROCKPORT (Ohio Co.), p.o. est. as Rock Port
(sic) 5/7/1863. Levi L. Wise; Disc. 11/4/1864;
Re-est. 7/24/1865. ';:[ames McConnell ••• Disc. 3/2 (
/1873; Re-est. 4722/73. Wm. Tinsley (by now it
was spelled one wordl ••• (NA); Mining town on
the ICRR where it crosses Green R. At the site
of a rocky bluff' on the river. An old boat
landing. (Musker L. Heavrin. P.N. OF OHIO CO ••
MS. 3/20/1925); (pron. "R(ahlk/pawrt") DK if
these names refer to the same sites. Never
heard of Bentons Ferry. Was known as Rockport
as early as CW days. DK when. by whom settled.
Now: filling
stat~ons, pop=400-500, ele. sch.
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but no\! longer a h~.sch. Town sh~fted some; us~
to be more on the river, but now on the hiway.
(Jas. Calloway, 11/5/1977);
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ROCKPORT_' (Ohio Co.): ("R(ah)k!p(aw)rt") Acer.
to the 1850 Census, th~ Bentons were in that
vic. (check in the Census as to which Benton
there was a ferryman). DK about Riverside.
DK if these J names refer to the same place.
Used to have a bank and h •. s. at R'port. Both
gone. On the Green R. Still. known as Rock~.
Used to be chfl.rtered, dropped, and reo
cently recharte.red. Now nearly altogether
residential. Stable pop. On US62. Old Rockport=down ~nder the hill, on the river.
Nothing there now but abandoned business
bldgs. and ~ome homes. No Bentons left there,
A ferry was operated there, but not by the
Bentons, until 1939 or '40 when it was replaced by a brid~e. (Harry D. Tinsley,
interview, 8/25/1978);
RoCKPORT (Ohio Co.) I Acc:. to ,trad., the 1st
settler was a Mr. Kincheloe who built a shack
on a hill overlooking the Green R. where he
trapped and fished~l& traded with the Indians.
Others moved nr. h'im and small settlement formed. Ferry. Place 1st called Benton's Ferry for
the man who lived closest to the ferry., n;'ch.
to Riverside. Still later n.ch. to Rockport
"due to the large rocks being on the bank of
the river, as though torn loose from the hill
above (where Kincheloe had his cabin) by a
mighty giant and rolled there.The Indians in
their language call'ed it the Place or the Rock
Kincheloe moved to the Muhl. Co. site of
KincHeloe's Bluff' (q.v.).;I;(Ray R. Tilford,
article on Rockport in the OHIO CO. MESSENGER,
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ROGERSVILLE (~-Co.): Originally Finchico.
N.ch. to Rogersville 2/13/1847 (ACTS 1846/7,
P. r(2) , Probably named for Joseph C. Rogers,
orig: trustee. (Clift, KY; VIL. ,.',.F. 39);
An act to change the name' of the town now
called Pinchico in Ohio Co. ,to Rogersville,
Joseph C. Rogers was appointed a trustee
(amon,g others) •. Approyed by the Ky. G. A. ·on
2/13/184). Ch. 191 (ACT'S 1846/7. P.162)·i,·
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ROSINE (Ohio Co.): sta. on ICG RR. PO est. as
Pige'on Roost for a part of the, com. nr. the
ICRR tunnel. The Pigeon Roost Creek flowed w.
from the mouth of the tunnel; Named for pigeor
"so large they broke the limbs from the huge
cedars--the birds left the area as mysteriously as they c81l!e." N.'ch. to, honor Jenny Taylor
McHenry, wife of Henry D. McHenry, founder.
She was a poet who published under the pennamE
"Rosine"':a yolo of poems in 1867 titlE!d "Forget Me Not." Toym'os pJ,at doc1Xffiented at ct.'
house as , Rosine' 91l51l873.(Aee~-t~-KHST~±eea±
~ee~±e-ea±±ee1"'3:~ (cf "Ohio Co. in· Olden Days":
Current pm=Mrs. Vada Stogner. c1974-5 po
served betw. 260-300 persons in area ••••• (acc.
Wendell Allen, "Rosine P.O. 103 yd. Old Toda~
ROSINE (Ohio Co.): Pop. now c. 350. 8 mi. e.
of Beaver Dam, 'on U862 & ·the ICG RR. The'
Pigeon Roost name was applied, acc. t,o, :L.ocal
oldtimers, to a section· of 'the commu. "near
the now dismantled IC railroad tunnel ••• be-,
cause of the hundreds of pigeons that once
came to roost in t~at area in larKe cedar
trees that st,o,od here--there we;r,e, E? 0 many of
the pigeons they actually broke limbs from
the trees by all. their weight. ,", •••• (Wendell
Allen of Rosine,' Ky. in a lett'er to me, 1/6/
1979)i·
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ROSINE (Ohio Co.): Platted by Henry D.
McHenry (q.v. McHenrv). Named.for his wife,
Jenny Taylor McHenry, the, author. of many
.. articles and poems, the latter published und.er
the pen name of ,11 Rosine". (Wendell Allen, "Ohi
County's First Ratlroad Entered via Grayson
Co." OHIO' CO. ,NEWS, Cen.· Ed., 12/26/1974. Sec.
], Pp. 17:19. 17:2); .(pron. "Roh/zeen U ) No,
longer stores or rr sta. there; only a few
homes.- (Jas. Calloway of Bowling Green, Ky.,
interview, 11/5/1977) (' 'f..,o/3"-"-'" 'I) (s~
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ROSINE (Ohio Co.): Basicly the same info. as
in Wendell Allen' s article (News, 19:(,5) is
given in NEWS, 9/13/1973. P. 8, by Nina
S'dhroaderl McHenry laid out the town with the
coming of the rr. Jenny died 1907. Most of hel
poetry published in the Louisv. Journal under
the"Rosine"byline. She was nee Jenny Taylor
from Hardinsburg. "The (Pigeon Roost) name waf
given because of the thousands of pigeons
which mysteriously came and settled in the
huge cedar trees that once stood there. Stories are that limbs were broken from the trees
by the weight of birds. The pigeons left as
mysteriously as they came." RR came thru in
c .1857.' Settlement started as rr- camp. The
ICRR tunnel was dug c .-1857. (;' ••• )
ROSINE (Ohio CO.)I Named for Jennie Taylor
McHenry, daughter of Rev. James Taylor of
Hardinsburg & wife of Col. Henry D. McHenry,
Ohio Co. lawyer & state leg. Elected to Congo
1870 and served 2 terms •. "Instrumental in
opening up'coal mining in this county." His
mine was "nucleus of the town (of) McHenry (qv;
(named) after him." His wife's pen name was
"Rosine" and she was author of a vol. of
poetry. Henry died 1891 ••• (FOgle's Papers: A
Hist. of Ohio Co., Ky." by McDowell A. Fogle,
P. 117);
ROSINE (Ohio CO.)I p.o. est. as Pigeon Roost,
1/16/1872, G.B. Van Nort •• n.ch. to Rosine,
6/10/1873, Leonard T. Cox ••• (NA); Town on
IeRR, founded 1872. Prosperous town for years
dependent on timber. DK why so-named. (Musker
L. Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO CO., ms, 3/20/1925);
Comm. 1st called Pigeon Roost and the po was
est. as such but later changed to Rosine. Inc.
as Rosine 3/16/1878;. Laid out· by Henry D.
McHe.hry and recordr;. 9/15/73. McHenry's wife,
JeNnie Taylor McHe ry was an author in the
1860s and used the penname "Rosine" but doesnt
imply that town w5 named for her. DK why name
was changed to.Rotne from P.R. (Vlendell Allen
Pres. Ohio Co. Hi t. Soc. in let~er to KHS,~
173/74);
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CO" ms, 3/20/1925; ~.o. est. 2/10/188"
Lafay,stte M. Jones ••• (NA); (pron. "See l(eh)kt
Used fo be a store & po there; now nothing.
"The story is thisJ) When they petitioned for a
po, they sent the--the area's kind of in the '
hills there--they sent 'em a list of names. And
they said 'Select one of the following.' And
they took Select." (Jas. Ca1]oway of Bowling
G'reen, Ky., interview, 11/5/1977); Prone with
both accent on 1st syl. and accent on bothsy1.
Never mu:eh there and e17len less now. Only a po,
..±o'Nn. Old store not. in operation for yrs. Never
were very many homes·:there but local people kno
. the name. (J as. Calloway, interview, 11/5/77);
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SELECT (Ohio Co.) I ("See/l(eh)klt)") Acc.
to trad., "they selected a name and sent it
in. (It) come (sic) back 'We got another one
in the state.' They sent another one in.
(sic) (It) come (sic) back, 'We got another
one.' I think that went on awhile. Finally
the POD sent them a list and said 'You selec'
one of these.' So they found the first word
and ~hey stopped there--Select. And that's
what~'i(t' s been called all through the years.
Now: Select Chu. of X at the side of the rd.
and that's all. You would not know you Vlere
at the place. Sparsely populated farming
Er~a. Blacktop rd. goes thru it.(Ky. 505.
e w. Rosine & Cromwell.) No stores any more
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SHULTZTOWN (Ohio Co., Ky): "A short-lived
settlement of a few families led (mostly) by
Mattias Shultz." Actually a pioneer station.
(To Ellis Hartford by an early Fordsville
teacher, Mae Rogers) Did not"survive as an or
town.:' In~lower end of the county. (Ellis
Ford~nartford &'Jas. Fuqua Hartford, GREEN
RIVER GRAVEL, McDowell Publications, 198 J ( Pp
97, 76); in s part of co. nr. Beaver Dam Id.,
P .. 95); (F'\b~)
SIMr,lONS (Ohio Co.), site of Broadway C:oal
Mining Co., now defunct. Had a pop. of 100
during coal boom. Named for Wm. W. Simmons, a
native of Courtland, Ala. He ran the Broadway
company •• (IIHist. of Coal in Ohio Co., Ky.
(1870-1953" Cent. Ed. of the Ohio Co. News,
article hy M. David Orrahood, 12/26/1974,( Pp.
10-11, 11, 1-2) ;
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S,IMMONS (Ohio CO.) I ("S (ih)mh !,)z") Iiothing
there now. Ex~mining town. Thinks there's an
old coal tipple there. DK origin of the name.
Mines peaked in the 1910s and closed during
the depression. I~.RR came thru c .1872 or ':3 •
•••• (Harry D. Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978);
SIMMONS (Ohio CO.)I p.o. est. 5/14/1908, Chas.
M. Mi\i.llam ••• Disc. eff. 7/31/1930 (mail to
McHenry) (NA) i A mining town on the ICRR. ·Owned e~ the 'Broadway Coal Mining Co. whose pres.
was W.Jlt. Simmons of Memphis, Tenm PO named. 1'0]
him. (Musker Ii. Heavrin, P.Ni. OF OHIO CO., ms.
3/20/1925); (pron. "S(ih)mh nz") At one time,
a big coal mining town. Now only 1 or 2 houses
left. Nearby a big'pond. Steep bend in the road
went around the mine ,pond which.was source of
waterj for the mines." Always a lot of· wrecks, .
on the road. F.lourishing mines during WWI. May
also be a chur. there now. DK why named. Doubts
anything there before po e'st •. MaY.have gone by
another name. 3:t' s on the main hiway •••• (.Fas .•
Calloway, interview, 11/5/1977);'
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the Green River on the Ohio-Muhl. Co. line at
the site of the present Smallhaus .... (C.A.
Reis. liRe is Comes Up with Proof that Smallhaus was Hoggs I -Falls II CENTRAL CITY MESS 10/
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SULPHUR SPRINGS (Ohio Co.): 2 mi. from Dundee. (Pron. "8(uh)l/fer Spr(ih)a z") Commu.
named for the springs there. After the sulphur well, was discovered, a resort was est.
there. The resort was a short distance from
the viI. The hiway was built between the old
town and the ,sulphur well resort area. The
water flowed (didnt gush) out of the flat
ground rather than the foot of a hill. Had a
strong sulphur smell. The Method. chur. purcased the old hotel for 'a young people's cam~
DK what the Meth. chu. has done with it since
Still a commu. of S.S. there. Hines Milly(
was at Dundee, not 8.S. ( .... ) tJas" Calloway
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SULPHUR SPRINGS (Ford CO.)I ("S(uh)l!fer
Spr( ih2? zl1) 1st sett-led by the Hines (es) •
This was a health resort c.lt mi. due s. of
Hines' Mills-Dundee. Resort at the springs oj
pure sulphur water. Peak as resort, c.1900
with big hotel and dance hall. DK when est.
but in' operation by 1880. Disc. c1920. Hotel
was recently torn doWn but the springs are
still. there in the brush. fl. S.. is on Ky. 690
The hotel was bought bya Meth. relig. group
that made a young people's camp of it. The.
communi ty is 'still called S.S. Located It
mi. due s. of Hines Mill, on tl1e S. bank of
. Sulphur Creek,. on the McHenry 1886 Ohio Co.
map. (Harry D. Tinsley, ,interview, ?/25/78);
SULPHUR SPRINGS (Ohio CO.)I p.o. est. as
Hines Mills, 5/28/1846, Warren'W. Hines; 12/19
8 5. Alfred T. Hines ••• n.ch. to Sulphur Sprs.
3 26/1872, Jeremiah B. Cannon ••• Disc. ef~. 9/3
1907 (mail to Narrows) (NA); Resort nr.
Dundee on the Hartford-Fordsville Rd. Both
fresh water springs and white sulphur springs.
(Musker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO CO" ros,
3/20/1925) I The springs was a health spa, and
a resort. Hines Mills to Sulphur Springs was
a ch. in p.o. site not a n •. ch. (Sam McDowell,
interview, 8/24/1978); ~v+ ~(l;-e-'{.
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SUNNYDALE (Ohio Co.) I p.o. est. 5/12/1900,
Cortez X., Bean •• Disc. 10/~Y1905; Re-est. )/2/
1911, Francis L. Sandefur ••• Disc. 12/)1/1917;
Re-est. 7/9/1920, Peter Crowder ••• (NA); Vi1.
on the L&N RR (Madisonville Div.);(pron.
"S(uhln/ee/da1") Ofr the road betw. Hartford
& Dundee. Now: little st,9):1.eri th a sign pointing to/ Sunnyda1e, close to thEi rr. Store is 0
the road. This is a newer road. The settlement
was fUrther back off that road. DK why.so
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named. (Jas. Calloway of Row1ing Green, Ky.,
interview, 11/5/1977); (Pron."S(uhln/ee/da1")
(Sam McDowell, 8/24/78); ':
SUNNYDALE (Ohio Co.) I ("S(uh)n/ee!dal") jilllWX
dpo & store. DK origin of the name. The store
is now closed up. Just a few homes are left ••
Farming area. Still called that. Manin' s
Chapel is just a short way down the road •••
:Sunnydale Cem~ is just across: the rd. from
the store. (Harry D.- Tinsley, interview. 8/25.
1978) ;
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Rhoades ••• Disc. eff. 3/31/1908 (mail to Hartforc
(NA), small viI. at jet. of Hartford-Hawesville
and Owensboro Rds. Named for the "excessive use
of taffy/'by the local peo,Ple. '(Musker L. Heavrir
P.N. OF OHIO CO" ms., 3/20/1925); (eVtrh.'
"T(.e.)f-(<u..") ('}>-J'_ ~v-l'\1 Id.--f-")I
("T(aelf/ee") DK origin of the name ••• Nowl theonly st9re left is now for sale or rent. S&ill
called Taffy. - Just off of Ky. 1414. A cluster
of homes. Local people didnt know name origin
either. A Taylor family owned the store there
once.
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TAYLOR MINES (Ohio Co.): p.o. est. 5/29/1890 •.
D.J. Coleman ••• Disc. 10/15/1910 (mail to
Beaver Dam) (NA); A large coal mine nr. Beaver
Dam on land owned by Harrison B. Taylor. Mine
opened c.~870s and named for land owner.
(OOusker L. Heavrin, P.N. OF OHIO CO., ms. J/20,
1925); Est. around the coal mines. Not extant.
Began in early 1870s. By 1897. had become the
5th largest producer in state. Company town
grew up around the mines with hotel. commissar,Y
and company-owned homes for employees. (Glendor
Minton. itA Salute to Coal Mining in Ohio Co.-Past & Present'" OHIO CO. NEWS. Cent. Ed.. 12/2~
1974. Pp. Ilf-17. 14:5-6);
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TAYLOR MINES (Ohio Co.) I (IITa:ll~ M(ah)~
(eye )nz" (sic) F'arms only before the coal .
mines were opened. Thinks the Taylors: owned
the land but dk. for sure. DK which Taylor( s)
were there •••• Nothing at the site now but an
old tipple, 2 homes, and a chu •. Stripping in
tne immediate vic. Had a pop. of c.~50+ at
one time,"Still referred to as (Old Ta lor
Mines •••• (~arry D. Tinsley, interview, 8 25/
1978); On the 1886 O~io Co. map (tho' the po
wasnt est. until 1890)". A rr' spur line just
of the main line betw. Beaver Dam & McHenry
goes to T.M., c. a little more than a mile,
acc'. to that map. (Ibid.) I
TAYLOR MINES (Ohio Co.):
(l'ron."Tal1':lr or
Cluster of
modest houses. (Jas. Calloway, interview, ll/~
1977)"; Sam MCDowell agrees on pron., above, al
it was Mine~ (8/24/1978); Taylor Coal Co. at
TStylor Mines po. 0.1900; . .
Wlawr'"r.JI,(ah)nz~M(eye)nz").
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VTEN~fSPOT (Ohio Co •• Ky): A coal minl.ng camp
r\',/of McHenry. (Mentioned. only. by M. David
Orrahood. "Hist. of Coal in 'Ohio' Co •• Ky."
OHIO CO. NEWS. 12/26/1974. Cent. Ed •• Sec, V.
Pp. 10-11. 11: 3), "There was a place in
!\lcH'enry called Ten Spot. ,It was ten identical houses built by a coal company. The
houses were identical in shape,. s.ize. color
and every other detail. A few of the houses
are still' standing "but the name of the
street has been changed to James Street.
Five of the houses faced First Street and
five faced· Allen',Street. They,were built by
Beaver Dam Coal Co. As I understand 5 of
the houses were back to back of the other
five on the same street. I got this information from a long-time resident of McHenry.
(Lett'er from Librarian, Ohio Co. Public
Library, Hartford, Ky. 42347)
~THREE LICK FORK OF MUDDY CREEK (Ohio Co .• Ky)
(F33lc) About a mile e. of Beaver Dam.
shall assume it was aptly named.
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WILLIAMS' (Ohio Co.): (pron. "W ih 1 y-,;mz") and
Williams Mines (pron. "w ih 1 y",mz Manz")
(J'as. Calloway, interview, 11 5!1977J;\"W(ih)]
y;;.mz") is over the hill, n. of McHenry...
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Referred to 10call~mostlY as Williams Mines
("W(ih)l/yamz M(ah nz"). Had a school. Thinks
that a Mr. Williams owned the land that the
mines were +ocated on. But merely guesses this,
The William~es were big landowners and farmers
in the area. Mines are closed and there's litt:
there now •••• (Harry D. Tinsley, interview,
8/25/1978) ;
WILLIM~S
(Ohio Co.). A coal mine by this name
nr. IIlcHenry and Render. Opened and run by J.S.
Williams and his 2 brothers sometime in the
1890s. Now owned (c.1925) by the Beaver Dam
Coal. Co. (Musker L,. Heavrin. P.N. OF OHIO CO.
ms., 3/20/1925); Es,t. around coal mines. Not
extant. J. S'. Willi,ams bought 410 acre farm i
mi. n. of Hamil ton (now IIlcHenry) in 1860. He w~
a state leg. Until' 1891 this place was operatec
as a farm. Then Williams' son. E.F. Williams
opened amine. Town grew up around it with
hotel; stores. company housing for workers.
Pop. (1919)=600-700. 'Only 2 homes mark the site
now. (Glendon ~Tinton. "A'Salute to Coal Mining
in Oltio Co.--Past & Present" OHIO CO. NEWS.
cent. ed. 12/26/1974, Sect. 3. Pp. 14-17.. p.r4
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thinks it might be nickname~) for a place RZI
close to Renfrow;) on Rt. 505. Maybe had a
store "there, but'""bld~s. is now vacant.
("W(ih)n/dee H(ih)l") (Haz:ry D. Tinsley,
interview, 8/25/1978); Store there now but
dk who operates it. (Lester Tinsley, interview, 8/25/1978);"
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Churches (Ohio Co., Ky) were org. in 1804.
(Ace'. to Hugh PQ.j:ter, from Wendell H. Rone,
Sr., in Daviess Co. hist., 1974, P. 51),
r--TI~;~select
One
AMONG the more unusual place names
in Kentucky is Select, a vlllage in Ohio
: County~! How it came to bear that pa~
! lar -iio~a is a perfect study in the line
of least resistance, according to Mrs. W.
E. Leachman of Caihoun.
I
When a post office was established in
, the community, the Post Office Depart-
ment, ~pon request, provided a list of
posslblt:l names. The list was headed
"Select;" which, perhaps to avoid too
much brain
strain, was
chosen.
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